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...comedy-drama, "The Advocate," by a young American actor, Mr. Charles Lander, was produced at the Kilburn Town Hall on Friday evening. It is taken from the French, is dated 1817, and is really a duel of words and stratagems between the advocate, Malesherbes, and the Baroness De Mergis, a lady who has piqued him by raising false hopes as regards love within his legal breast. She wishes to marry her son to Helene, daughter of the Marquis De la Tour, whose estates had been confiscated and bestowed on the father of Barnard Dubois. This young gentlemen is supposed...
...stretch a point in trying to associate together the name of William Shakespeare, the first name in English literature, with that of John Harvard, the most august one in the history of American education. We know that at this very time William Shakespeare had finished his career as an actor in London, and giving himself to the writing of plays, had eclipsed everybody. He was longing to acquire the competence that would allow him to retire to his native town, and was in a fair way to do it. Aubrey tells us he was in the habit of making...
...Francis Wilson the actor, visited the CRIMSON office yesterday, as the guest of Mr. Morton D. Mitchell...
William Warren, the veteran actor, visited college yesterday...
...Springfield Republican thus speaks editorially of Mr. Irving's lecture in Sanders Theatre: "Culture and liberality have made rapid progress in the last twenty years, in the last ten even, when Henry Irving, the representative English actor of the day, delivers at Harvard College an address on the art of acting; an address which presupposed from its tone and the treatment of its subject that there would be in the audience students wishing to adopt the stage as a profession, as others will adopt law or journalism or the ministry. This assumption, once at least, explicitly stated, is the most...