Word: plays
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...most powerful plays which has appeared in New York this winter was written by a Harvard man of the Class of 1908. The CRIMSON has chosen two criticisms from the daily press to reprint in this morning's issue which fairly represent the critics' idea of the worth of "Salvation Nell." The play was written while the author was still in college and in connection with work in one of the courses in the English department. The criticisms of the play have naturally been concerned in considerable measure with the author himself, this being his first production, and they have...
Since its first production in Providence on November 12, "Salvation Nell," the play by E. B. Sheldon '08 in which Mrs. Fiske is acting, has been the subject of much favorable comment in the press. It is practically the unanimous verdict of the critics that Mr. Sheldon has produced a work of great power...
...polite conventionalities shattered, the fact must go on record that this boy from Harvard, backed only by the courage of his own convictions, and with Mrs. Fiske as both actress and stage manageress standing as a tower of strength behind him, has given New York the most daring play that this town has ever seen...
...second public performance of the Dramatic Club's play, "The Promised Land," will be given at Jordan Hall, Boston, this evening at 8 o'clock. Tickets at $1.50, $1.00 and 50 cents are obtainable at Herrick's, at M. L. Shuman's, 7 Lowell street, at H. Cabitt's, 100 Salem street, and 109 Green street, at Thurston's, and at the Co-operative, or upon application to D. Carb, Stoughton 2. Several rows of seats have been reserved especially for undergraduates, tickets for which can be obtained at 50 cents each, from D. Carb, Stoughton 2, or at Jordan...
This leads again to consideration of the ambitious quality of the play. Its mood is the mood of poetic drama, but its matter is contemporary and actual. One is given at times a conviction that if a millionaire, instead of a practical but unmoneyed idealist were leading them, the Jews would follow as one man. So much of necessity has money meant to them. But then again one sees only the sublime doggedness of their one highest ideal-resisting compromise. The play in short sets one thinking, sets one contemplating a great ungathered people's fate as well...