Word: woman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Preparations for the production of Ben Jonson's "Silent Woman" are rapidly progressing. The text which will be followed has been edited by Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson. An important change has been made in the cast, in that the parts which were taken by women in the New York performance will be taken by men in the performance to be given in Sanders Theatre...
...Harry and Edward Poulton, appear for the first time here at the Boston Museum. The whole comedy is centred around Pauline Hall, whose appearance again on the Boston stage is highly welcome. Dorcas is a very light, amusing, musical comedy. The story dwells upon the escapades of a young woman of title who resorts to strategem to satisfy herself of the character of a lordly lover. She disguises herself as a peddler boy, then as Dorcas, a village beauty and wife of an innkeeper, and finally as the daughter of an English Lord. In all these three characters Miss Hall...
...members of the Department of English have voted to ask Mr. Franklin Sargent of the Lyceum School of Acting, with a company of his pupils, to give Ben Jonson's "Silent Woman" in Sanders Theatre. The time set is March 20, but that is not yet definitely determined...
...intention to have the stage setting of the play a careful reproduction of that of an old London theatre. Mr. Sargent's company gave one performance of the "Silent Woman" in New York recently, but there was no such attempt at an elaborate reproduction of the old setting. If the play is successfully given, it will be the first accurate revival of an Elizabethan play, Shakespeare excepted, that has ever been seen in this country...
Reynolds's greatness lies in the way he observed the colors of nature and imparted them to canvas. Somewhat deficient in draughtsmanship, often excelled by Romney in rendering the beauty of a woman's face, but combining the color of Titian, the grace of Corregio, the depth of Rembrandt, Sir Joshua Reynolds stands unrivalled and alone...