Word: scene
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...labor of mentally connecting Shakspere's words with the action of the player can hardly fail to detract somewhat from the spectator's pleasure. But, pantomime and all, Salvini's Hamlet interests and pleases. Throughout it recalls Booth much more than Fechter, to our mind. In the scene where the ghost first appears, a great deal of the acting seems strangely familiar, and elsewhere throughout the play the likeness is striking. The conception of the part is different from Booth's; it is not so artistic, but, like Fechter's, more even and consistent throughout. Hamlet, as Salvini shows...
...tree, perhaps the favorite scene of the day, we are even more cramped than at the Chapel. Probably no class would be willing to be the first to relinquish the old Rebellion Tree for any other, no matter how superior the location; so we must put up with the lack of room as best we can, as long as Holden Chapel stays where...
...turn, and look upon the glorious scene...
...SCENE in a hen-roost, on a Sunday evening: "And, Pat, do you think it is right in us stealin' on the night of this houly day?" "Och, Jamie, that's a great moral question; hand us down another pullet...
Later, - Midnight.A telegram just received from the scene of action announces that the Sophomores, after razing the city of Boston to the ground, surrendered to the authorities of Cambridge, and, being taken before the Police Court in that city, were fined five dollars and costs each, a just and fitting punishment for their inhuman atrocities...