Word: london
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...London Graphic contains an article on the training of the Harvard and Yale crews...
...architecture of a city, the plan of the streets, and the positions of the parks and squares, the consideration of good circulation is of the greatest importance. Paris leaves a much pleasanter impression on the mind than London or New York, because the parks, squares and monuments of Paris are placed at the ends of the streets, so that every street leads toward a point of interest...
...managers. This two-fold capacity was to each a hindrance as well as a help It helped them in adapting their ideas to the needs of the stage, but at the same time it tended to produce artificiality. The beginning of Boucicault's dramatic work was practically in "London Assurance," which appeared about 1840. It was criticised as "a mere imitation of Sheridan," but Sheridan in his turn was indebted to Congreve and Moliere. Boucicault, like other English dramatists, makes little appeal to life. He neither helps people to be better, nor keeps them from being worse. Lady Gay Spanker...
...summary, Mr. Copeland said that "The Love Chase," "London Assurance," and "Masks and Faces" are the three best legacies of the drama of yesterday. He mentioned as books which would be well worth reading, Colley's "Cibber's 'Apology'" and Lewes's "Actors and Acting...
Lecture. The Drama of Yesterday: "London Assurance," "Old Heads and Young Hearts," "The Hunchback," "Still Waters Run Deep," "Peg Woffington," "David Garrick," "Richelieu," "Society," "Caste," and other plays by Sheridan, Knowles, Boucicault, Tom Taylor, Bulwer, and Robertson. Mr. Copeland, Sever...