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...Jack Donahue would cause a riot where Modjeska and the Barrymores doing card tricks would not even excite a ripple. Small favors should be accepted gratefully; certainly there is an absence of really good drama but there are arid spots in every menu. Announcement of the coming of a Shakespearean company for a month's stay should hearten the gloomy and serve as an indicator, perhaps, for the future months. In the meantime it is not necessary wholly to damn the merry-merry, which is, to some, a bone on which to gnaw during a famine...
...playwrights are for the most part fortunate in their cast. But there is slight difference of opinion among the players. Some of them have obviously been brought up in the tradition in which Mr. Shakespeare was brought up, and play it with the gestures which distinguish that famous Shakespearean actor, Mr. Jewett, while others affect the musical comedy manner, and with a good deal of success. The chorus men wear their pink and white complexions becomingly, but their dancing does not compare with that of the girls, who recall many another road company Boston has known...
...playwrights are for the most part fortunate in their cast. But there is slight difference of opinion among the players. Some of them have obviously been brought up in the tradition in which Mr. Shakespeare was brought up, and play it with the gestures which distinguish that famous Shakespearean actor, Mr. Jewett, while others affect the musical comedy manner, and with a good deal of success. The chorus men wear their pink and white complexions becomingly, but their dancing does not compare with that of the girls, who recall many another road company Boston has known...
...Canada, the Rt. Hon. Francis Anglin. Other women had been so honored before: Eliza Allen Starr for art criticism; Agnes Repplier for essays; Christian Reed for novels; Katherine E. Con way for poetry. Actress Anglin's distinction, as everyone knows, was a long career in classical roles, especially Shakespearean, and a lifelong feeling that she "could not act the part of a sinful, murderous woman." Acting President the Rev. Patrick J. Carroll of Notre Dame said: "She has kept her work characteristically pure and noble in nature...
...case. The cast mercifully interpret light comedy in a gay spirit unoppressed by the playwright's reputation. Sometimes the humor is even flavored with slapstick, as in the case of Egon Brecher's Sir Toby Belch, who does. Yet so airily do the players carry off the Shakespearean fancies that the audience readily forgives trivial irreverence avows Twelfth Night...