Word: play
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Hundred Years Old," a new drama in five acts, was presented at this theatre on Monday night. The play itself is very improbable in plot, and depends for its interest entirely upon good acting, which, it is needless to say, it receives from the Museum Company. Jacques Fauvel, "Le Centenaire," is the central figure of the piece, and the part was acted by Mr. Warren in a manner to put the impersonation on a par with his greatest achievements. Jacques Fauvel is not a senile dotard on the verge of the grave, but a hale and hearty old man, with...
...Tantalus added to the horrors of Commons. Some of us, who are water-drinkers, must be carrying around a small internal menagerie, or, rather, aquarium, by this time. But time hardens the Commoner to almost anything, and to some it may be amusing to watch the little creatures at play. If one of these persons is of an inventive turn of mind, he might have his name handed down to posterity as the inventor of some kind of minute fishing-tackle by which these sportive creatures could be caught. The fishing could be engaged in between courses (?), and might divert...
...England colleges. At the Convention held at the Massasoit House, Springfield, April 5, this plan was fully developed and established. The six colleges, represented by their delegates, decided that there should be such a tournament, and that it should take place at Springfield, July 14; each Nine playing with every other Nine. The tournament, coming to a close on the day of the Regatta, will furnish another attraction for Springfield that week, while the large number that will attend insures all the clubs against pecuniary loss. Though the Freshman Nine is, as yet, far from organized, they played a game...
...contrary, I then considered, as I still do, that this story, whose interest culminates in the unravelling of a mysterious murder, in which a long chapter is devoted to the trial, and another to the confessions of Aram; a story in which such men as Hauseman and Clark play leading parts, - such a story, I say, is not entirely exempt from the charge that its "characters are taken from Newgate." Hauseman is certainly a villain, and Clark, the murdered man, was little better. Even Eugene Aram, whom my critic seems to rather admire, is not a good man; for, despite...
...mistake to suppose that walking is a partial exercise, or that it brings into play the muscles of the lower limbs to the exclusion of others. On the contrary, the chest is one of the parts most benefited, and by the quickly succeeding contractions and expansions necessary to sustain a rapid gait, the lungs are constantly receiving fresh invoices of purer air than any indoor exercise will admit of. We know of a case where a young man who had lost his voice so as to be unable to speak above a whisper entirely regained it by a walk...