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...Deutscher Verein has decided on "Alt-Heidelberg" as its annual spring production. Performances will be given in Brattle Hall on Wednesday, April 27, and on Friday, April 29, in Jordan Hall, Boston. A choir of Germans from Boston will sing selections of German songs at each performance. A series of pictures illustrating the play, as it was given in Germany several years ago, has been posted in the rooms of the Verein, where the members may view them. The play was first brought into prominence in the fall of 1903 at the Irving Place Theatre, New York, when Richard Mansfield...
Plot of "Alt-Heidelberg...
...plot of the play is as follows: The young Prince Karl finds in the free student life at Heidelberg an undreamptof relief from the petty binding formalities of court life. Here he falls in love with Kathie, the pretty waitress at Rueder's Inn. But finally he goes back to his kingdom, since "he may not as unvalued persons do, carve for himself." Two years later he returns to Heidelberg on a visit only to part from Kathie forever...
...predominant charm of the play is its exposition of Bohemia; it "discovers student life in one of the most delightful cities of the old world, and a scrupulous fidelity to the aspect of the romantic old German city and the sports and songs of the gay Heidelberg students is rendered in the absolute likeness of life...
Professor Muensterberg studied at the Danzig Gymnasium, and later at Leipzig and Heidelberg; he was given the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Leipzig in 1885, and in 1887 Heidelberg conferred upon him the degree of M.D.; he was awarded the degree of A.M. from Harvard University in 1901, and was made LL.D. by the University of Washington three years later. He was appointed instructor in the University of Freiberg in 1887, and was made assistant professor in 1891. In the following year he was made Professor of Psychology, and Director of the Psychological Laboratory of Harvard University...