Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Bishop Logan Herbert Roots '91, of Hankow, China, will speak at the dinner given by the St. Paul's Society in the Tower Room of Memorial Hall this evening at 6 o'clock. Bishop Roots has been prominent in missionary activities in China ever since he graduated from the University and his talk tonight will concern his work in the Orient. All members of the St. Paul's Society and the Christian Association are invited to attend...
...Paul's Society will hold a dinner in the Tower Room of Memorial Hall tomorrow evening at 6 o'clock. Bishop Logan Herbert Roots '19, of Hankow, China, will speak. Bishop Roots has been prominent in missionary activities in China ever since he graduated from the University, and his talk tomorrow night will concern his work in China...
...enlisted the aid of Mr. Lawrence McCarthy, manager of the Boston Opera House, who has tendered the theatre free and who is planning the details of the performance which he will personally direct. The following distinguished artists and theatrical companies have volunteered their services: Mrs. Fiske, Marie Tempest, Sir Herbert Tree, Edith Wynne--Matthison, Lydia Lindgren, Mary Ryan and company in the second act of "The Hour Glass"; Clifton Crawford, Margaret. Romaine and John Charles Thomas, from "Her Soldier Boy" at the Shubert; Ernest Truex, Alice Dovey, Oscar Shaw and Julia Mills, of the "Very Good Eddie" company; the Aborn...
...Herbert Tree and poetry divide this number between them, and on the whole the "noble knight" (as his Advocate critics have the strength of mind not to call him) has the best of it. We have Sir Herbert in two lights-professional and personal. Mr. Seymour reviews "Henry VIII" with the assurance and occasionally with the overflowing florescence of Mr. H. T. Parker of the Transcript. Sometimes we doubt his phrases, "a rambling story-play of no real central fulcrum"; sometimes his judgement, "in the speech of farewell he achieves the superlative work of genius"; sometimes his grammar...
...Brentano go the laurels. With not a little skill and with a great deal of lively humor he takes us to a dress rehearsal at the Hollis Street Theatre, introduces us to Sir Herbert, permits us to hear their conversation, and, best of all, Sir Herbert's managerial commands and witticisms addressed to the actors on the stage. It is distressing to find so capable a reporter referring to the theatre as a "veritable fairyland," a phrase now in good use only in the Woman's Auxiliary Alliance of the Osterville Baptist Church...