Word: inns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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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...
Four or five of the parts, like Mr. Layman's old tutor, Juettner, Mr. Perrin's waiter translated from inn to court, Mrs. Barnes-Hochberg's Kaethie of the tavern, and in a little less degree Mr. Schurig's mincing and mealy-mouthed chamberlain, were admirably taken. The players had sense of character, carried it to the audience, and acted generally with freedom alike from self-consciousness and what in some instances was an acquired speech. With Mr. Layman's Juettner, indeed, illusion never flagged and it was the true illusion of the old man's sentiment. Skillful...
...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...
...club will hold its annual dinner at the Lombardy Inn, Boston, next Wednesday evening. The speakers will be Professor I. L. Winter '86, of the Department of Public Speaking, E. E. Hunt '10, T. M. Gregory '10, W. R. Ohler '10, H. M. Potter '10, and F. W. Sullivan '10. R. H. Smith '10 will act as toastmaster. Various members of the club will speak informally...