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...special matinee has been arranged at the Shubert Theatre for this afternoon at 2.15 o'clock, in which one of the greatest German actors, Ernst von Possart will appear. The play will be Erkmann Chatrian's play, "Freund Fritz" and Mr. Possart will appear in the role of Rabbi Sichel...
...Thursday, February 9, at 2.15 o'clock, one of the greatest of contemporary German actors, Ernst von Possart, is to appear in a special matinee, arranged by the Bostoner Deutsche Gesellschaft at the Shubert Theatre, in the role of Rabbi Sichel in Erkmann Chatrian's play "Freund Fritz...
...delivery, literary insight, and profound study of character. Let me only say that I count it among the great memories of my student days to have seen him in such parts as Byron's "Manfred," Bjornson's "Advokat Berendt," or as Shylock, Mephisto and Wallenstein. The part of Rabbi Sichel in the play to be performed here is one of his very best, and, on account of its naturalness, is particularly well adapted to an audience unused to German acting. Harvard students interested in the drama have here indeed an unusual opportunity for profitable enjoyment...
...Middlemass '09, whose acting grew steadily better from beginning to end, a gentle, noble, and at every crisis finely impassioned figure. Miss Gragg in an uneven role gave through the last two acts so sincere a performance that the house broke into applause at her defiance of the Rabbi, and then at the last became physically uncomfortable over her anguish at Hartwell's well-acted deatn. Her appeals, her sobs, her despair, were surprisingly effective. It would be easy to go on commending: the solicitude of Gregov, as played by O. Lyding '09; the fervor of Ussishkof as acted...
...trial. The first act takes place in Wolfstamm's estate near an Austrian watering place; the second and third acts are laid in Hartwell's office, adjoining Convention Hall; the last act shows Hartwell's summer house. The final cast is as follows: Raymond Hartwell, R. M. Middlemass '09 Rabbi Elchanon, D. Gardner 2L. Albert Gregor, O. Lyding '09 Sir James Wingate, E. A. Bemis '11 Von Schlegel, J. M. Longyear '10 Wolfstamm, A. J. Bloom '11 Schamberg, A. Gregg '11 Liefert, W. White '10 Ussishkof, J. A. Eccles '10 Orlenski, M. Adelsheim '09 Petroff, J. C. Savery '11 Bernstein...