Word: museums
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Museum; postage-stamps...
...BOSTON MUSEUM. "Dr. Clyde" is a rather amusing piece, although the plot is very slight. The best character in the play is Higgins, the servant of Dr. Clyde, who, by reading his master's medical books at odd moments, imagines that he knows everything about the theory of medicine, and only needs practice. He accordingly undertakes to prescribe for a patient in the doctor's absence. The acting is quite good, Warren, of course, leading with his assumption of Higgins. Mr. Burrows, as Dr. Clyde, and Mrs. Vincent, as his wife, are both good; we have rarely seen Mrs. Vincent...
...chief opposition to this project is expected to come from those gentlemen of the Corporation who are deeply interested in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; but that institution is surely on a footing sufficiently secure to have nothing to fear from the establishment here of a Museum, which the University, as an institution of national importance, should possess...
...School. This, however, could be built for about $75,000, and the money for it would naturally come from some one more interested in the Law School than Mr. Hastings was. His gift is to the College; and as an expensive building must be put up, an Art Museum certainly has the strongest claim. Before the new building is begun, it is to be hoped that a definite plan (irrespective of existing buildings, if need be) for the buildings of the Yard may be agreed upon...
...BOSTON MUSEUM. " Dr. Clyde," a play translated from the German of L'Arronze, the author of "Mein Leopold" ("My Son"), was produced here last Monday evening. Of the piece itself, little that is favorable can be said. The acting is good, on the whole, especially that of Mr. Warren. "Dr. Clyde" will be continued next week...