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PARK THEATRE. "David Garrick." Robertson's play, "David Garrick," the groundwork of which he found in an old French drama of the same name, is one of the most pleasing of his works. It abounds in bright and humorous passages, and at the same time, there is a pathos, running through the two principal parts, of an exceedingly refined quality. To say that Mr. Sothern brings this out to its fullest extent, is simply to repeat that he is a finished actor and a gentleman. The support is not very good, the tendency being to overact the comic parts...
BOSTON MUSEUM. - "The Humbugs," which was produced at this house on Monday evening, is a clever adaptation by Mr. B. E. Woolf of a French comedy called "Les Faux Bonshommes." The piece is amusing and bright, and is well acted by the Museum company. Mr. Warren comes first with his impersonation of Peponet, a rich old man with two daughters, whom he wishes to marry as advantageously as possible. The plot of the piece turns on the complications which arise with their suitors. Mr. Barron fills the part of Edgard satisfactorily, and Mr. Wilson, as Bassecourt, is excellent. Saturday night...
Whose eyes are as bright as the fiery coals...
...Private College for Women begins its career with bright prospects for future success. As many as twenty candidates have presented themselves for admission, and among them students from Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley, in spite of the fact that those colleges claim to offer to their students all the advantages of Harvard. We take the occasion to report to our Western exchanges, who have already begun to talk about women at "cultivated" Harvard, that the Private College for Women is entirely separate from the College. It is controlled by persons who have no connection with the University, and is merely...
DANIEL PRATT has been addressing the students of Dartmouth, and the result is an unusually bright number of the college paper. The Dartmouth's notes on the early history of the college are interesting, and the locals have the rare quality of being amusing to others than the students themselves. Personals, however, seem to form the body of the paper...