Word: richelieu
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...eighty-three years Bulwer Lytton's "Richelieu" has had a lease on the English stage. The melodrama will inevitably complete a full ninely-nine year lease and then, unworthily, gain a renewal. Its life has been long, not because of any particular merits of the play as a drama of character, beautiful verse, or deep significance, but because the part of the Cardinal affords excellent opportunities to an actor. For that reason alone it has survived on the stage, and escaped its deserved fate as a piece for the class-room illustrating the theatrical tastes of our grandfathers that helped...
...played on Monday night by Robert Mantell and his company at the Boston Opera House the play gained little in production. The story of Richelieu's intrigues, the love affair of Adrian De Mauprat and Julie De Mortemar, and Baradas' conspiracy against the weakling Louis XIII is too well known to be repeated. But to that story, brimful of striking theatric effects which Macready aided Lytton in devising, little sense of the dramatic and cumulative was brought by Mr. Mantell and his company...
...would be a distinct oversight if no mention of Robert Mantell's production of "Richelieu" appeared in these columns. With the possible exception of Mr. Hampden's "Hamlet," we venture to say that no more artistic performance has been seen in Boston this season. And, wonderful to relate, Mr. Mantell and his company played to an adequate audience...
...Mantell and his company are inestimably valuable in the American theatre. If we are inclined to criticise rather severely some of his Shakespearean performances, there can be nothing but praise for his "Richelieu." We can only hope that he will return to Boston in the fall, and that on his next engagement he will give us more than two nights when we may forget so completely the age in which we live...
...Sorbonne from 1916to 1918, and a member of the American Board of Trustees for the Union, to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "A total of 140 colleges and universities are represented in the Union, which is now located in the Royal Palace Hotel, at No. 8 Rue de Richelieu. Now we are making plans for the future...