Word: robertson
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity will give its first public performance of "The Alchemist," an Elizabethan comedy by Ben Jonson, in Brattle Hall this afternoon at 2 o'clock. The members of the Forbes Robertson company will be present at this performance. The second Cambridge performance will be given in Brattle Hall tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock, and the Boston performance in Potter Hall, Friday evening at 8 o'clock...
...roles which gave him a definite position in the front rank of English actors. He created the part of Dunstan Renshaw in Piner's "The Profligate," and fairly electrified the audience by the perfection of his acting. At the Garrick in 1890 as Baron Scarpia in "La Tosca," Mr. Robertson's grim, powerful and horribly fascinating performance came as a revelation to play-goers who had identified the actor with the sympathetic young lovers of Shakesperian and modern drama. After creating the part of Dennis Heron in Pinero's "Lady Bountiful," he gave a beautiful and memorable rendering of Buckingham...
...Robertson in 1895 went into management and produced "Romeo and Juliet" and "The School for Scandal" with Mrs. Patrick Campbell. At the Lyceum a year later when he played in his present part, he reached a reasonable ideal, and a distinguished critic and Shakesperian scholar exclaimed, "That man was born to play Hamlet." His company was taken to Germany, where the Emperor saw Macbeth and Hamlet, and received Mr. Robertson twice in the Imperial box. On his return "Macbeth" was given with an all-star cast...
Claudius, King of Denmarke,Ian Robertson Hamlet, son to the late, nephew to the present King, Forbes Robertson Fortinbras, Prince of Norway, West Drayton Polonius, Lord Chamberlaine, Guy Lane Horatio, friend to Hamlet, Arthur Harrold Laertes, son to Polinius, Leon Quartermaine Rosincrance, Courtier, N. Howard Guildensterne, Courtier, F. Bickley Osricke, Courtier, H. Beaumont A Priest, Morton Bennett Marcellus, Officer, J. R. Ryan Bernardo, Officer, Leonard Howe Francisco, a soldier, C. Kinnaird Reynolds, servant to Polnius, S. Macdonald First Player, James J. Ryan Second Player, S. T. Pearce First Grave-digger, Ernest Cosham Second Grave-digger, S. Thompson Ghost of Hamlet...
HAMLET ON AN ELIZABETHAN STAGE. Mr. J. Forbes-Robertson. Sanders Theatre, 8 P. M. Admission by ticket only. Tickets, at $2.00 and $1.50, for sale at Sever's Bookstore, Cambridge, and at Herrick's, Copley square, Boston...