Word: warren
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Monday night. The play itself is very improbable in plot, and depends for its interest entirely upon good acting, which, it is needless to say, it receives from the Museum Company. Jacques Fauvel, "Le Centenaire," is the central figure of the piece, and the part was acted by Mr. Warren in a manner to put the impersonation on a par with his greatest achievements. Jacques Fauvel is not a senile dotard on the verge of the grave, but a hale and hearty old man, with every mental faculty intact and enlarged by years of experience, and with much bodily vigor...
...scene at the supper, Mr. Warren, Gaillardin, clearly outdoes himself, while the other parts are well sustained. Much of the scenery is new and the appointments elegant...
...vessel, which conveniently heaves in sight just after the grand reconciliation. Still the play abounds in ludicrous and not unnatural situations, and the leading parts are rendered by Miss Clarke and Mr. Barron in that quiet, unostentatious manner which is the peculiar charm of the acting of both. Mr. Warren was, of course, immensely funny. The scenery was some of the best the Museum has ever produced...
...illustrated article on the "Roumi in Kabylia"; one by Professor T. B. Maury upon the Trans-Alleghany Water-Way; the opening chapters of Mr. William Black's new novel, "A Princess of Thule," which bids fair to equal in interest his "Monarch of Mincing Lane" and the "Phaeton." Charles Warren Stoddard contributes a powerful piece of writing entitled "In the Cradle of the Deep." "Probationer Leonhard" is concluded. The criticism of Miss Neilson in the Monthly Gossip seems to us a very fair one, and the other work toward the end of the volume is good. "The Hermit's Vigil...
...story is interesting. The acting of all who took part in the piece was uniformly good. The character of the proud but loving Rachel was particularly suited to Miss Clarke, and her impersonation was in her best manner. In Patrick, the old veteran who "fought against Bonaparte," Mr. Warren gave another example of the versatility of his talent. Mr. Barron, as Robert, was subdued and natural without being tame...