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...snatch brief space to reenforce the sentiments expressed indirectly in a CRIMSON editorial Thursday concerning Walter Hampden? The company of which this very worthwhile actor is the leader came into Boston during the Christmas vacation, consequently its plans and whereabouts are not too well known by members of the University. For the remainder of this week it intends to give at the Boston Opera House some of the great plays from Shakespeare, with one or another pieces thrown in for certainly varied and perhaps balanced entertainment. The company although not a notable one is thoroughly creditable and quite capable...
...Year's night Mr. Walter Hampden revived Massinger's "A New Way to Pay Old Debts". The audience felt a trifle conspicuous in the vast emptiness of the Opera House, but the comedy soon put them at ease. It is a pity that revivals must always be veiled in the odor of sanctity, to be approached only with the deference due to age. Philip Massinger did not write for antiquarians and students of literature. He wrote for the gallants and ladies of Elizabeth, for their drapers and tapsters, their coachmen and chambermaids--and he won them...
...drama, as played by Mr. Hampden, is a good old comedy of plot and action, with characterization, minimized. Sir Giles Overreach is a stage villain without redeeming features, while his daughter (strange heredity!) is the sum of all charms. There is the attractive young lover, the afflicted hero, the fawning toad, and a host of stock comic characters brightly differentiated. When--one reads these Elizabethan comedies, one is puzzled sometimes to follow the twisted threads of plot and counterplot; but on the stage it all unfolds compactly and without confusion. The trick of deception, dramatic irony, we call...
...Hampden is graced with a full company of capable actors, and though his own art is great, it does not out-shadow the rest of the company, as stars are wont to do There is no great chance for art here: it is the whole-heartedness, the vigor, and the liveliness of the whole cast that makes the play so appealing. If the humor seemed to drag in spots, it was only because it needed a responsive audience to echo it and buoy it up. There was plenty of it, spontaneous and without archaism. For settings, which required frequent shift...
...Debts" will be repeated tonight and for the last time next Wednesday evening. The rest of Mr. Hampden's repertoire is as follows...