Word: partly
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...this theatre Mr. Edwin Booth has been playing a round of standard parts during the week. The remembrance of most of his impersonations must be still fresh, as it is only two years since his last visit. "The Merchant of Venice," however, was not produced at that time, and his appearance in it this week has given an opportunity for seeing his performance of the less familiar part of Shylock...
...Booth's impersonation of the part is an excellent example of his power of identifying himself with the character he represents. In each look, gesture, and motion we see only Shylock; the personality of the actor is completely hidden in that of the Jew. The interview with Tubal, in the fourth act, and the "trial scene," which closes the play, give the best opportunity for dramatic effect, and Mr. Booth's acting, in those passages, comes as near perfection as any that the present generation will be likely...
...what, then, should consist the training for public life, which our universities do not now furnish, but which would aid young men, animated by an ardent wish, to have an honorable part in the determination of great questions of law, government, and social science, and not incapacitated by an inordinate longing for place? "The preparation for action which I should desire would have in view chiefly two fields of usefulness to the nation. . . . . One of these is in the direction of the periodical press; the other is that of public speaking with effect...
...Here, on a rude platform, built in the crotch of a tree at least thirty feet from the ground, sat Nason, '73, ready for the faintest signal of the start. But the start was not yet. The wiser ones, who had waited for boats to start before, took no part in the general rush to the bank at each false alarm, but quietly got through the tedious hour and a half as best they could...
Then came the ball, which was advertised "to eclipse anything before seen in Western Massachusetts." We are unfortunately unacquainted with what is customary in that part of the State, but if the attendance is generally as much out of proportion to the preparations made, we are sorry for "Western Massachusetts...