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...first Boston performance of Sir Herbert Tree's production of "Henry VIII" will be held in the Hollis Street Theatre tonight. In commenting on the success which the celebrated English actor has made in the play, Dr. F. W. C. Hersey '99, of the English Department, says...
...should miss seeing the superb production of 'Henry VIII,' which Sir Herbert Tree, the leading actor-manager of the English stage, is bringing to the Hollis Street Theatre tonight for a limited engagement. It is fortunate that all members of the University can now witness the pageant-play which was one of Sir Herbert's notable successes at his Majesty's Theatre, London, and which he brought to America last spring as part of his contribution to the celebration of the Shakespeare Tercentenary. Not for twenty years has this play been given in Boston, not since the performance...
...Herbert Tree has not played in Boston for nineteen years. During this period he has made His Majesty's Theatre in London a great national institution devoted to the arts of the theatre and has brought into his service the finest actors of the time and distinguished artists, musicians and scholars. He has kept Shakespeare on the stage. From 1897 to the present time he has made each year a magnificent production of one of Shakespeare's plays: 'The Merry Wives of Windsor,' 'Hamlet.' 'Julius Caesar,' 'King John,' 'A. Midsummer Night's Dream,' 'Twelfth Night,' 'King Richard III,' 'The Tempest...
Ernest Truex, as the effiminate husband, is a remarkable example of what a good character actor can do. No one who saw him as the tough boy "detectuff" in "The Dummy" a few years ago would even recognize him in his present role. He has a rare gife of becoming not himself, but the particular person he is enacting for the present. He is thoroughly at home in his present part, having played it once before in "One Night," Philip Batholomae's farce, on which "Very Good Eddie" is founded...
...stage for "Hamlet" will be modelled upon that constructed in 1893 for the production of Ben Jonson's "Silent Woman," reproduced in 1903 for the performance of "Twelfth Night" by Maude Adams. On account of the elaborateness of the preparations, the talent of the actor, and the impressiveness of the occasion this production of "Hamlet" is the most important event of several years in drama at Harvard...