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...Emil Layman 1G., who played the part of Dr. Juettner in "Alt Heidelberg." will give a recital in German, under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein, in Phillips Brooks House this evening at 8 o'clock. All who are interested are invited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: German Recital in Brooks House | 5/16/1910 | See Source »

...final performance of "Alt Heidelberg," the Deutscher Verein play for this year, will be given in Brattle Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. Tickets, at $1.50, $1, 75 cents, and 50 cents, are on sale in Boston, at Herrick's; and in Cambridge, at the Co-operative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Last Production of "Alt Heidelberg" | 4/29/1910 | See Source »

German as all this is, alike in outward aspect and inner spirit, in both speech and action, it is universally human, comprehensible, and touching, while the exotic setting, as it seems to us in American, of the Karlsberg court and the Heidelberg inn, only adds another tang to the pleasure of the whole. Thus, in a measure, is "Alt Heidelberg" proof against any sort of performance; but it needed relatively few of these defences in the representation that the members of the Deutscher Verein accomplished last night. They had, too, the aid of a part of the Pierian Sodality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. T. Parker's Review of Verein Play | 4/27/1910 | See Source »

More nearly than any other German play, unless it is Sudermann's "Heimath," of our immediate time, "Alt Heidelberg" is a universal, almost a classic piece. Even mistrustful Paris has seen it gladly, while American audiences long since warmed to its sentiment and its humor. German it is at every turn; in its satire of the petty routine and stiff-backed etiquette of the modern Pumper-nickel that Meyer-Foerster calls Sachsen-Karlsburg; in its glimpses of the life of the students at Heidelberg; and, above all, in its two sentimentalists--the old tutor, Juettner, dreaming over the university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. T. Parker's Review of Verein Play | 4/27/1910 | See Source »

...never flagged and it was the true illusion of the old man's sentiment. Skillful, too, was the suggestion in Mrs. Barnes-Hochberg's Kaethie that for once the girl meant more and meant it more sincerely than she had with what must have been, unless the ways of Heidelberg inns have sadly changed, the twenty predecessors of Karl Heinrich. The other parts went with varying degrees of competence; the chorus of students scarcely needed to believe itself German; and if Mr. Barnes-Hochberg's prince lacked romantic illusion--a very difficult thing to attain and one that very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. T. Parker's Review of Verein Play | 4/27/1910 | See Source »

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