Word: pinero
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...December seventeenth the Garrick Club, one of the two dramatic clubs of the university, presented a very creditable performance of Pinero's comedy "Dandy Dick." The following evening the Yale Musical Clubs gave their annual Philadelphia concert at the Academy of Music. After the performance, which was a thoroughly enjoyable one, and attended largely by Pennsylvania students, a smoker was tendered the members of the clubs, at the University Club...
...dramatic side of university life will begin unusually early this year with the performance by the Garrick Club of Arthur Pinero's famous "Dandy Dick." This play ran for 250 nights in London, but has never been producted in Philadelhia. The Garrick Club is a dramatic organization which has existed for about two years, having as its object the presentation of plays of acknowleged literary excellence. The coming performance will be given on the evening of December 16. The club will give several other performances during the winter...
...becoming more and more the fashion for play wrights to publish their works in book form, and thus to protest against being regarded as outside the domain of pure literature. Mr. Pinero and Mr. Henry Arthur Jones have already vindicated their claims, and the latest comer to their ranks is Mr. ComynsCarr in his play, King Arthur, just published by Macmillan and Co. An additional interest centres about this play from the fact that it is one of Henry Irving's favorites and it being produced with the utmost success in his present American tour...
BEGINNING with tonight a two weeks' engagement is announced of Miss Marie Burroughs at the Boston Museum. This will be her second appearance in Boston this season. The first week of her engagement she will present the Pinero play, "The Profligate." The second week will be a brilliant one, as this beautiful artist will appear in "Romeo and Juliet" and "Leah, the Forsaken." She will be supported by nearly the same company as when she was here last, headed by John E. Kellerd and Louis Massen. Miss Burroughs' engagement closes the 54th regular season of the theatre, and promises...
...Profligate," Mr. Copeland said, is one of Pinero's best plays, but is not nearly equal to several other contemporary plays of the same sort, such as "The Doll House," translated from Ibsen, "Magda" by Zudemann, or "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray," by Pinero himself. The "Profligate" is of interest, for it is an attempt to write a serious play which shall give a true picture of life...