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...celebration of the Shakespeare Tercentenary, the Boston Public Library is including in its course of free public lectures to be given during the coming winter a number of lectures on Shakespearean subjects. On Sunday afternoons at 3.30 the following speakers from the University will deal with the following topics...
...greater extent than any exhibit heretofore, the methods, advantages, and picturesque results of the modern ideas of stage-setting, Gordon Craig and Max Reinhardt, foremost in the new methods in Italy, Germany, Russia, and other European countries, Joseph Urban, Livingston Platt, who contrived the settings for Miss Anglin's Shakespearean productions, and many other artists, including Leon Bakst, Fitz Erler, and Robert E. Jones will be represented by models, sketches, photographs, and designs of stage settings and costumes. One of the most interesting departments of the exhibition will be the models made to scale, and especially one large working model...
Professor George P. Baker '87 will speak on "Granville Barker and his Late Shakespearean Productions" tomorrow afternoon at 4.30. On Thursday afternoon, Mr. Crawford of Yale will talk on "The Modern Playwright and his Relation to the Newer Staging" and on Friday Mr. Thomas Wood Stevens, of the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh will speak. H. K. Moderwell '11, dramatic critic of the Transcript, will speak on Saturday afternoon and evening...
...distinguished list of revivals of Elizabethan plays, the Delta Upsilon this year adds Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors." The production is ambitious and interesting. For one of the first times in this country a setting is shown such as Munich and other German cities have long used for Shakespearean plays. A dark blue cyclrama drop fills the back of the stage. At front as a kind of inner proscenium, or as replacing the tormentors of former days, are doors at left and right in panels painted to represent marble. Pinkish curtains carry the eye back from the drop curtain...
...outbreak of the Civil War. He was born in New York City in 1834, moved to Boston when he was four years of age, and attended school there until 1851, when he came to college. Among his intimate friends at college were the late Horace Furness '54, the great Shakespearean scholar, and the late Charles Lowell...