Word: sothern
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...returned to this country and taught in a private school in New York until 1904 when he began writing plays. His best known works are "The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer," "Fenris, the Wolf," "Sappho and Phaon," and "Jeanne d'Arc." The last named was produced by E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe in this country and England in 1906-07. Mr. MacKaye has also been a lecturer on American Drama in Chicago, Ann Arbor, and Buffalo...
...teaching in New York City but since 1904 he has devoted his time almost exclusively to writing plays. He is the author of two works on "The Canterbury Tales" of Chancer, "Fonris the Wolf, a Tragedy," and "Joan d'Are," which has been produced by Mr. E. H. Sothern and Miss Marlowe in America and England...
...Tennyson and Swinburne be called failures. The reasons are obvious: it is too long-I think that the version given by Miss Kalisch was liberally cut down; it is too far removed from actuality; it has too little action: it is too poetical. Even the exaggerated popularity of Sothern and Marlowe could hardly have supported this play and that was all that made "Joan of Are" successful on the stage. Indeed, what was not enough to draw the public in the very competent hands of Miss Kalisch would have been ludicrous if Miss Marlowe had acted it-and would probably...
...LECTURE. "Hamlet" on the Modern Stage. Mr. Copeland. Sever 11, 8 P. M. The Hamlets of Edwin Booth, Sir Henry Irving, M. Mounet-Sully, Mr. Beerbohm, Tree, and Mr. E. H. Sothern will be briefly considered in this lecture...
Lecture. Edwin Booth, Sir Henry Irving, Mr. Beerbohm Tree, Mr. William Barrett, Mr. Sothern, Mr. Willard, M. Mounet-Sully, and Madame Sarah Bernhardt, in the Character of "Hamlet." Mr. Copeland. Sever 11, 8 p. m. The lecture will be followed by a reading of "Partridge at the Play," from "Tom Jones...