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...there is no first-rate character for any one player. Whatever the reason, it is certain that the first valid record of any performance of "The Two Gentlemen" comes so late as the year 1762. The first American rendering was given in New York by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean in the year 1846. Forty years later in March, 1886, Madame Modjeska and a competent company gave the play in Boston, and that was the first and only Boston performance until Mr. Daly's revival. With the clear exceptions of Miss Mary Shaw's Sylvia and Mr. Vanderfelt's Protets...
...obtained. Daniel Webster did not become great by merely imitating some one else. He had great gifts of a certain kind, and used them to the full; but the power to impress other men does not depend on girth, or stature, or avoirdupois. Napoleon and Nelson, Garrick and Kean, were little men, yet did not their individualities find suitable means of expression, each in its proper fashion? Just so may that of every other man if he only uses the means with which God has thought fit to endow him; but he can no more trim the natural power within...
There are three Yale graduates in the new Congress-Kean, Dubois and Russell...
...Miss Terry at Huntington Hall this afternoon at 2 o'clock is as follows: Gemini at Virgo (Calverly), Miss Terry; Feast of Belshazzar (Arnold). Miss Terry; Hamlet and the Players (Shakspeare), Mr. Irving; Copper field and the Walter (Dickens), Mr. Irving; Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare), Miss Terry; Edmund Kean (English Actors), Mr. Irving...
Wells, For the Kean. plaintiff. Shahan, For the defendant...