Word: version
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...success of any drama is its suitability for stage presentation, then "Sappho and Phaon." as has been proved in New York, fails, but so also must the dramas of Browning and 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...
...acting in Shakesperian plays at the Tremont Theatre, will give a reading from Shakespere, in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House, tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. Mr. Mantell has acted in a number of plays by Shakespere, and is now planning the production of an English version of the "Oedipus Rex" of Sophocles. All members of the University are cordially invited...
...Song,' while he stood before the fire waiting for his children to go to church with him; and he was equally able to spend patient years in hearing and weighing 'slowly and with decorum,' as he says, the criticism of other and younger Italian scholars on his version of Dante. He was abstemious, yet wrote joyous drinking songs for his friends;--did not call himself an abolitionist, yet pronounced the day of the execution of John Brown of Ossawatomie to be 'the date of a new Revolution, quite as much needed as the old one.' When worn with over-work...
...Hollis Street Theatre this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. Impelled by a desire to help on the good work of the Students' House, a haven for the artistically inclined, Mr. Faversham is going to present, under the title of "All the World and his Wife," an English version of the powerful play, "El Gwan Galeoto," the masterpiece of the Spanish dramatist Jose Echegaray...
Rehearsals for the Delta Upsilon Play, "The Wise Woman of Hogsdon," are now being held under the direction of Mr. A. S. Hills '00, instructor in public speaking, who has prepared the acting version of the play...