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...response to numerous requests for a performance open to the public, the 47 Workshop will give a performance of "Catskill Dutch", a three-act play by R. W. Brink 3G., at 8 o'clock tonight at Brattle Hall...
...James this week the Boston Stock Company presents a tinkling little three-act comedy, as merry as its name, "Wedding Bells". It has to do with marriage, divorce, red hair, misunderstanding, reconciliation, and the eternal hexagon of farce-comedies. About the middle of the first act a suspicion of the outcome begins to dawn upon you, and you settle back in your seat and affably await the end of the third act and the inevitable. At the appearance of Jackson upon the scene, you unconsciously nod in greeting, and the pleasant thought comes to you, "What is comedy without...
Tonight at Agassiz House at 8 o'clock the 47 Workshop will present as its first play of the year "Slug" by Henry Fiske Carlton. This is a three-act play of hobo life in the Northwest which was written in 47a last year, receiving honorable mention in the Belmont Prize competition. A second performance, restricted to members of the 47 Workshop and those on its guest list, will be held at the same place tomorrow night...
...With "Three Live Ghosts" this week, the St. James renews its tradition of bringing popular successes to Boston. Here is a bubbling comedy that belies from start to finish the "Peace, Perfect Peace" of the "motto" conspicuous over Mrs. Gubbins' humble doorway. Spirits, real and figurative, flit in and out; the souls of the departed are invoked as the curtain rises, and they answer the call in full person, to the discomfiture of the mediums and the three-act merriment of the audience. The comic situation is quickly and simply woven, exposition coming in each case just enough ahead...
...Witches' Mountain" is a three-act "gaucho" drama laid on the wild slopes of the Andes. The action is for the most part fast and vigorous, and the play is colorful and strong in dramatic effect, depicting the self-reliant spirit of the gaucho. The plot concerns the scheming and planning of three ranchmen to obtain the love of Inda, the daughter of a fellow ranchman. The story gradually increases in intensity until it has worked up to a powerful climax...