Word: pinero
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...period of light comedy followed: he took the part of Claude Glynne in "The Parveau" and Claudio in a revival of "Much Ado About Nothing," with Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. In 1883 he played the Earl of Caryl with great distinction in Pinero's "Lords and Commons. His Julian Beauclerc in "Diplomacy and his Sir Charles Pomander in "Masks and Faces" were admirable as character studies, and added greatly to his reputation...
...Garrick in 1890 as Baron Scarpia in "La Tosca," Mr. Robertson's grim, powerful and horribly fascinating performance came as a revelation to play-goers who had identified the actor with the sympathetic young lovers of Shakesperian and modern drama. After creating the part of Dennis Heron in Pinero's "Lady Bountiful," he gave a beautiful and memorable rendering of Buckingham in "Henry VIII," and was called before the curtain again and again with Mr. Irving and Miss Terry...
...first article, "Mr. Pinero and. "The Gay Lord Quex'", by J.P. White, is a thoroughly adequate narrative of Mr. Pinero's progress as a dramatist and a carefully considered criticism of "The Gay Lord Quex." To those who saw and enjoyed the play this winter, the article serves the useful purpose of fixing "The Gay Lord Quex" in the literary drama and of showing its close relation to the work of other dramatists and novelists...