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Lecture. Edwin Booth, Sir Henry Irving, Mr. Beerbohm Tree, Mr. William Barrett, Mr. Sothern, Mr. Willard, M. Mounet-Sully, and Madame Sarah Bernhardt, in the Character of "Hamlet." Mr. Copeland. Sever 11, 8 p. m. The lecture will be followed by a reading of "Partridge at the Play," from "Tom Jones...
Lecture. Edwin Booth, Sir Henry Irving, Mr. Beerbohm Tree, Mr. William Barrett, Mr. Sothern, Mr. Willard, M. Mounet-Sully, and Madame Sarah Bernhardt, in the Character of "Hamlet." Mr. Copeland. Sever 11, 8 p. m. The lecture will be followed by a reading of "Partridge at the Play," from "Tom Jones...
...Antoine is one of the most successful actors at these theatres. His charm does not, like Coquelin's or Mounet Sully's, lie in a commanding voice or an extravagant costume, but consists in putting before his audience the exact counterpart of what he represents. He does not act; he lives his part. He never panders to the whims of the public: for instance, unlike other actors, he does not hesitate to turn his back on the audience. He likes to act the plays of young and comparatively unknown authors, and it is his boast that he discovered and fostered...
...clock this evening, in Sever 11, Mr. Copeland will lecture on "Hamlet on the Stage." The players discussed will be Edwin Booth, Mr. Wilson Sarrett, Sir Henry Irving, Mr. E. H. Sothern, M. Mounet Sully, Mr. Beerbohm Tree, Mr. E. S. Willard, Mme. Modjeska, and Miss Terry...
...speaking of the text in Hamlet, as wherever this actor is called upon to utter blank verse, is by turns sing-songy and jirkily prosy, but Mr. Irving is the most intellectual of players, and has illuminated the character of Hamlet with many subtle interpretations. As for M. Mounet-Tully, Hamlet is so strange to our ears on any tongue not English that the mind of his hearer is divided between natural bewilderment, and admiration for the varied beauty of this actor's delivery of his own language...