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...playwright for making a living by writing bedroom farces, if that be his ambitions, but there are many who object to hear the declaration that these are what they, a goodly part of the public, want. The American theatre-goer has had no real opportunity to choose between the Shakespearean drama and the modern farcical acrobatics. It is inaccurate to say that one thing is preferred to another unless both have been equally and fairly presented for choice. Unfortunately the public's taste is the result of the stuff with which it has been...
...coach, the Club has secured the services of Mr. Kendall Weston, a famous Shakespearean actor and now director of the Somerville Players. Mr. Weston played in former years with Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett...
Walter Hampden, now playing at the Arlington Theatre in a series of Shakespearean plays, seems to have awakened Boston's interest in his work. His audiences, meagre during the earlier performances, have grown steadily, and at present he is drawing excellent houses; in fact his success has been great enough to call for an extra week of "Hamiet," "The Merchant of Venice," and "The Taming of the Shrew...
...brightening them, and Mr. Hampden himself has improved with further practice. Polonius and the Queen need improving, and Miss Morgan as Ophelia does not get all that she might form her part, at which she is new. With further experience, however, she should develop into an extremely capable Shakespearean actress. Le Roi Operti as Osrle, although playing a very small part, deserves praise, as does Mr. Thomas as the First Grave-digger...
...excellently graduated. The men interpreted equally well the gentle philosophy of Praetorious, the resounding energy of Buck's "At Sea," Mendelssohn's smooth and flowing "Huntor's Farewell," and in Morley's enchanting "Now is the Month of Maying," following carefully the feeling of that light, delicate fragment of Shakespearean England, while into the final "Hallelujah, Amen," they put all the sonorous vigor for which Handel is famous...