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...first scene, in the light of the subsequent four, was disappointing. There was not enough reality to the witches, and the strident, crackling tones of old women was not realized. There was too much restraint in the acting of the Doc- tor, the father, and kinsmen, furthermore. Sentences were too rounded, and uttered in too much of a "there,-that's-over-with" manner. Only the spark of a candle and "man is born" were really impressive...
...artistic taste, simplicity and magical effect, than this. The lighting here, as all through the play, is soft and entirely appropriate. The effect of a house in ruins was well brought out, although a trifle more illumination would not have spoiled the scene. Again one felt here that the kinsmen--now loud in their denunciation of Man who lives to no purpose--have too much restraint about them. Alexander Hamilton, the Heir from the Street, shares in this stage-consciousness until the witches enter, when he does some capital acting. (It is a notable fact that whenever anybody...
...HAPPY MEMORY OF CHARLES RUSSELL LOWELL EDWARD BARRY DALTON STEPHEN GEORGE PERKINS JAMES JACKSON LOWELL ROBERT GOULD SHAW FRIENDS COMRADES KINSMEN WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY THIS FIELD IS DEDICATED BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON
...proclaimed his kinsmen's victory...
...sleep. The space thus enclosed between forest and sea seems a very paradise. Gentle slopes separate the green hills from the fertile valleys; blue streams ripple joyfully to the sea; the whole place is sparsely covered with noble trees, individualized into a more gigantic beauty than that of their kinsmen in the forest. In the fairest of the valleys, next the sea, protected on the north and west by gently sloping yet lofty hills, lies the village, a goodly sight to a weary traveller. Truly it is beautiful in the Land of the Apes...