Word: tempester
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Likewise the acting varies, but Miss Tempest raises each of her scenes to sparkling high-comedy, strengthening every moment her position as one of our chiefest comediennes. "A Lady's Name" is hardly valuable for its story. In an effort to obtain "copy" for her novels although possessing a surly finance, advertises for a husband. Her most promising material appears in a sleek, oily gentleman's gentleman. So pleased is she with his novelizing possibilities that she invites herself to tea at his place of service. A bored gentleman, who comes in fun and stays at the lady's feet...
...scholars. He has kept Shakespeare on the stage. From 1897 to the present time he has made each year a magnificent production of one of Shakespeare's plays: 'The Merry Wives of Windsor,' 'Hamlet.' 'Julius Caesar,' 'King John,' 'A. Midsummer Night's Dream,' 'Twelfth Night,' 'King Richard III,' 'The Tempest,' 'Much Ado About Nothing,' 'The Winter's Tale,' 'Antony and Cleopatra,' 'The Merchant of Venice,' 'King Henry VIII,' 'Macbeth,' 'Othello,' and since 1905 has given an annual Shakespeare Festival, including many of these plays. We are glad to welcome to Boston this famous actor-manager and his admirable company...
...verse is "Poet and Philistine." This is so long and circumstantial that one is tempted, forgetting the point, to look on it merely as an enumeration of fair women, and to exclaim "Yes, but you have forgotten Anne Hathaway and Manon Lescaut!" Among the other pieces of verse, the "Tempest" is worth mentioning...
...Dane gift, some twenty-five English plays. Among the more important of these may be mentioned: Marlowe's "Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta," 1633, first edition; Beaumont and Fletcher's "Knight of the Burning Pestle," 1635, second edition; Davenant's "Siege of Rhodes," 1670; Dryden's "Tempest," 1670, first edition, "Tyrannick Love," 1670, first edition, and "King Arthur," 1691, first edition, with the prologue and epilogue which are not in the edition of the same date already in the Library; Shadwell's "Sullen Lovers," 1690, and "Humorists," 1691. From English dealers the Library has lately bought with...
...Beethoven overture we have a most striking contrast, for here the descriptive suggestion is not of the elements of the outward world, but of the emotions and passions of a human soul. The agitated opening theme strongly typifies the tempest-tossed soul of the hero, and the beautiful lyrical second theme, the supplicating appeals of his mother. The overture as a whole is doubtless a tone picture of a scene in the Volscian camp, before the gates of Rome, between Coriolanus, Volumnia, and Virgilia, which ends with the hero's, death...