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...mouths of many Londoners in such a fashion that one critic was moved to say, "when you saw old Irving stand before his altar and say the words Becket never really said, you wouldn't give a thought for all the historians in the world." And even now Walter Hampden walks upon the stage with thin Castillian face, sharpened by a neat goatee and craggy nose. About him are the red robes of a Cardinal and he still rolls out the lines of Bulwer-Lytton that youth's bright lexicon knows no word for fare...
...space that these two actors embrace in the modern theatre will be talked about today at 2 o'clock in Emerson J by Mr. Hersey in his talk on "The Modern Theatre from Irving to Hampden...
...Modern Theater; from Henry Irving to Walter Hampden," Illustrated lecture, Professor Hersey, Emerson...
...premiere. Said he to his Press: "The part I play doesn't need acting. The character has absolutely no emotions. Anyone with a good speaking voice could walk through it. In fact I'll venture to state that any actor living, with the possible exception of Walter Hampden, could play the role as well as I do. ... This year I've done two things I wanted to do - go to Peking and act in a play...
...Yale defeated Harvard at Hampden Park, Springfield, Saturday by a score of 12 to 3 in one of the hardest fought contests in the history of football...