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...Zach will give the instrumental music, and a number of Norwegian folk songs and ballads will be sung by Miss Aagot Lunde, a Norwegian singer. A feature of the p ogramme will be the "Peer Gynt Suite," by Grieg, the accompaniment to the play of "Peer Gynt," one of Ibsen's greatest plays...
...third of Mr. John Blair's modern plays, Henrik Ibsen's "Master Builder," was given yesterday at the Tremont Theatre...
...shades of feeling so delicate we cannot define them in ourselves, the play is indeed the work of a master builder. Swinburne's poetry represents that transitionary stage between articulate ideas and music; where the mere sound of the words carries more weight than their definite meaning. Ibsen's play stands at the other end of the scale, where the subtlety of idea and emotion has passed beyond the range of verbal expression...
...absence of Mr. Blair from the cast was deeply felt. Mr. Pascoe as Solness, however, brought out vividly the conflicting elements of Solness's almost insanely morbid character. Miss Kahn, as Hilda Wangel, was the star of the performance; the mere fact of her having given to Ibsen's impossible heroine so much life and so much reality, is in itself the highest tribute to her acting. Mr. Lewis, as Ragnar Brovik, seemed much more at home than in "Ties," and played his part with greater ease and more convincingness. But the theories of the so-called "natural" school...
...third of Mr. John Blair's course of Modern Dramas, "The Master Builder," by Henrik Ibsen, will be given at the Tremont Theatre this afternoon at 2.15 p. m. "The Master Builder" was first performed in English at the Trafalgar Square Theatre, London, in 1893, where it achieved success...