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...hardly fair for those who have not been to a concert to give judgement), nor can it ever hope to do so. Unquestionably there are those who leave a Symphony Concert feeling that they would have enjoyed a jazz band more; and others who, upon seeing a Shakespearian performance long for the less subtle enjoyment of a musical comedy. Their course of procedure is clear; either they may resolve to try again, with the aim of improving their taste, or they may decide to remain in the realm of jazz and chorus-girls...
...Hampden, who is at present playing "Hamlet" at the Tremont Theatre, is) considered by leading dramatic critics the greatest living Hamlet. He has gained his experience through enacting many and diverse roles, mainly Shakespearian...
Forbes-Robertson's greatest reputation in the United States, except for his Shakespearian plays, is in his production of "The Passing of the Third Floor Back," by Jerome K. Jerome, which enjoyed such extraordinary popularity, both in England and America...
...London under his own management. His plays with Henry Irving included "Much Ado About Nothing." "Henry VIII," and "King Arthur." The present American tour is his sixth the first being with Mary Anderson in 1885; and the others following in 1889, 1902, 1905, and 1909-10. His most famous Shakespearian plays besides "Hamlet" are "Macbeth," "Caesar and Cleopatra." "The Merchant of Venice," and "Othello...
Granville Barker, the English producer of modern dramas and reviver of Shakespearian and Greek plays, spoke to an audience of 600 people in the New Lecture Hall on "Ideas in the Theatre" last night. The lecture was scheduled to be given in Emerson D, but several hundred persons were unable to get in, and the New Lecture Hall, with greater seating capacity, was used...