Word: plot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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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...
...EDWIN ADAMS appeared at this theatre on Monday evening in the dramatic version of Tennyson's "Enoch Arden." The author followed the poem very closely in plot and detail, giving special prominence to the part of Enoch. Mr. Adams sustained this character in a quiet appreciative manner, which showed a marked improvement over his former acting in Boston. We recommend this play to all lovers of legitimate acting...
...combination of "Rachel the Reaper" and "Ye Gentle Savage" has now been running at this house for two weeks, and shows no signs of diminished favor, as yet. Charles Reade's "Clouds and Sunshine" affords the plot and incidents to the longer play, and the story is interesting. The acting of all who took part in the piece was uniformly good. The character of the proud but loving Rachel was particularly suited to Miss Clarke, and her impersonation was in her best manner. In Patrick, the old veteran who "fought against Bonaparte," Mr. Warren gave another example of the versatility...
...Globe.At this theatre, Miss Agnes Ethel has been acting in M. Sardou's drama of her own name, to large and appreciative audiences. Of the play little need be said. The plot is decidedly old, but none the less interesting. The impersonation of Agnes demands the beauty and grace of person, the purity and loftiness of bearing, which Miss Ethel so easily gives to it. Although unequal to the passages of tragic emotion, these are so few that the lady's weakness in those parts leaves but little impression on the mind. Her greatest success is achieved in the first...
...False Shame," which has for some time been the attraction at this theatre, is a comedy deserving of great praise for simplicity of plot, grace of language, and especially for the naturalness and effect with which all its situations and stage-business have been arranged. To these latter merits, we think, it owes its success; for there is but one character of importance in the piece, - that of Lord Chilton. This part was assumed by Mr. Barron, and we regard it as one of the best efforts ever made by that gentleman in comedy. Although forced, from the necessities...