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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...seventeenth annual intercollegiate chess tournament at the West Side Republican Club, Broadway and 83d street, The following will represent the University; E. H. Guening 2 M., K. S. Johnson 2 G., W. W. Parshley '09, F. P. Byerly '11, and D. B. Childs '10, substitute. The order of play is as follows: Monday--Harvard vs. Yale, Columbia vs. Princeton; Tuesday--Harvard vs. Columbia, Yale vs. Princeton; Wednesday--Harvard vs. Princeton, Yale vs. Columbia. In order to gain permanent possession of the intercollegiate cup a team must win the championship for ten successive years. Columbia has won the last two matches...
...times when their interest will sag, owing to the young author's too great love of mere characteristic detail; then again, they will be thrilled by the strength of many of the scenes, for with all of his youthful crudities on his head, this lad has in his play some splendid passages of tense and virile drama-and above all the work of Mrs. Fiske as the converted scrubwoman and of Holbrook Blinn as her brutal convict lover will lay them under one of those spells which are found in the theatre nowadays only once in a blue moon...
...word, a very remarkable production of a very unusual play. Its few faults are easily remedied; the prayer at the climax of the second act is not effective. The curtain should fall on Nell's line to her child: 'Pray as you have never prayed before.' The opening of the third act drags too much with street detail, and the entrance of Myrtle gives this scene its one false note. But these are tiny specks upon a wonderfully effective stage sun. Mrs. Fiske's production as well as her performance at the Hackett will go down into theatrical history...
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