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...second and last week of the engagement of Mrs. Potter and Mr. Bellew at the Columbia will begin March 11, and will undoubtedly be a repetition of the complete success during the past week. Mrs. Potter will be seen at her best as an emotional actress, and Mr. Bellew will also have excellent opportunities for showing the quality that is in him. The bill will be the younger Dumas's comedy of "Francillon" on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings. The comedy has been seen in Boston before, with both Mrs. Potter and Mr. Bellew...
Tonight, for the first time in their existence, the two rival debating societies will meet in a public contest. The year has seen a remarkable increase in the interest in debate, and the two societies have never been so prosperous nor contained so much ability as at present. The committee in charge have made the most careful and extensive preparations for the event. Hon. William A. Bancroft '78, Mr. Ernest L. Conant '84, and Mr. George P. Baker '87, will act as judges. The meeting will be presided over by Herbert C. Lakin...
...comedy company, including Miss Maud Adams, began a four weeks' engagement at the Hollis Street Theatre Monday, March 4. The first week of Mr. Drew's engagement will be devoted to "The Bauble Shop," his new play from the pen of Henry Arthur Jones. Mr. Drew will also be seen in another new piece, the work of Madeline Lucette, and entitled "Christopher, Jr." as well as in a brilliant revival of his last season's success, "The Butterflies," and other plays. Mr. Drew stands foremost in the rank of light comedians, nor is it hard to explain the cause...
...company gave one performance of the "Silent Woman" in New York recently, but there was no such attempt at an elaborate reproduction of the old setting. If the play is successfully given, it will be the first accurate revival of an Elizabethan play, Shakespeare excepted, that has ever been seen in this country...
COLUMBIA THEATRE. - The greater "Shenandoah" will be presented at the Columbia Theatre for six nights and two matinees, beginning next Monday, in the same superb spectacular manner as that in which it was seen for one hundred and fifty nights at the Academy of Music, New York. As "Shenandoah" is now presented there are twenty-five horses and two hundred soldiers that participate in the realistic Sheridan's ride scene, and all the battle movements are gone through with ease and entire verisimilitude. The cast, too, is splendid. There could be no better type of the handsome Southern girl than...