Word: talents
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Mary Anderson visits New Haven this week, but as Geraldine Ulmar has just been there Mary needn't expect to mash the Yale boys. This country may as well learn that there's no use bucking against Boston talent. - [Post...
...entitled Le Quartier Latin: Journal Humoristique, Litteraire et Scientifique, and it promised to be the 'organ of the wants and pleasures of the students.' Tales, madrigals, sonnets, anecdotes and jokes filled its columns; there was scarcely a serious bit of writing in it. Now, the young men with journalistic talent send their contributions to such papers as the Beaumarchais, the Jeune France and the Parnasse, but the quarter has no special literary organ that represents its interests and advocates its claims. . . . The slang of the Parisian student is a study. When he wishes to say that he has made...
...senior class of Mt. Holyoke Seminary petitioned that they be allowed to publish a paper. The principal told them that there wasn't enough talent in the class to do credit to the institution. - [University Herald...
...George Riddle as OEdipus, and Miss Georgia Cayvan as Jocasta. Of Mr. Riddle's acting we may say that, though he appeared in the leading role supported by a cast of characters well known in theatrical circles, he stood forth among them all as a star of rare talent. The chief criticism that has heretofore been urged against Mr. Riddle's acting was that his voice was not sufficiently strong to play so heavy a part as that of the leading character in the "OEdipus Tyrannus;" but, we are happy to say, his voice has improved wonderfully since his last...
...Miss Georgia Cayvan, who appears before her Boston friends for the first time in tragic acting. We do not think that a better selection could have been made for the difficult part of Jocasta. While at the Madison square Miss Cayvan has been recognized as an actress of undoubted talent, but we think that the perfection with which she rendered her part in this play will surprise even her most ardent admirers. She displays throughout a strength and, at the same time, a delicacy of feeling that is equalled only by her superior gesture and the spirited intelligence with which...