Word: robert
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Paul Hervieu, was given at the Tremont Theatre, yesterday afternoon. The play itself is representative of the tendencies of the modern French drama, and, as in many of its class, the author has been led by the purely psychological interest of his plot to overdraw his principal character, Robert Fergan, and to suit the demands of his climax rather than to fit the climax to his character. With this climax still in view, he has brought in a period of ten years between the second and third acts, which even the long and rather tedious accounts at the beginning...
...interpretation was of an order rarely seen on a Boston stage. Mr. Blair's conception of Robert Fergan was virile and not unsympathetic, and his acting was finished to the highest degree. His support was of exceptional strength and evenness. Miss Kahn resembles Mrs. Fiske in the naturalness of her method; Mr. Lewis, as Michael Daverines, though a trifle stiff, and not altogether convincing, made the most of a thankless and difficult part; and Miss Harrington and Mr. Anderson played the colorless sister and brother-in-law with excellent taste. But, on the whole, the cast failed in only...
...formal dedication of Brooks House will be made at 4 o'clock on Tuesday, January 23, the seventh anniversary of the death of Phillips Brooks. The formal transfer of the building to the University will be made by Mr. Robert Treat Paine, in behalf of the Building Committee. Addresses will be made by President Eliot and others...
...ROBERT WOODS BLISS...
...Student Volunteer Committee. Stereopticon Lecture: Public Baths and Gymnasia. Hon. Josian Quincy, Mayor of Boston. Address by Mr. Robert. A. Woods, of the South End House. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...