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...latest acquistion to the Fogg Museum is a fine cast of the Pieta of St. Peters in Rome by Michael Angelo. This cast is now on view in the Michael Angelo room, and near it is hung a large carbon photograph taken from the marble. From the two a very just idea of this important early work by the great master may be obtained...
...Iolanthe" on Monday evening opened to a crowded house, and the vast audience were unsparing in applause and laughter, showing conclusively that Mr. Rose had gauged accurately the taste of his public. The cast was a strong one, the individual members of the company seeming to be especially fitted for their respective parts. Mr. Wolff as the Lord Chancellor was thoroughly at home. Mr. Murray as Strephon, Mr. Persse as Mt. Ararat, and Mr. Wooley as Tolloller rendered the familiar airs with charming effect, while Miss Lane as Phyllus was even more dainty and bewitching than ever. Miss Mason sang...
...cast of the opera employs for the first time the united strength of the entire company. The two prima donnas, Miss Lane and Miss Mason alternate in the role of Marguerite-Gounod's music being too great a tax on any one voice for eight performances. Mr. Wm. Wolff has the part of Mephistopheles, which is entirely suited to his magnificent voice. Mephisto is a new role for Mr. Wolff. The public has seen him in roles of almost every description since the opening of the opera season...
Faust, the title role, is cast with Mr. Persse. Mr. Murray as Valentine is extremely happy. The part is that of a dashing soldier, calling for characteristics possessed by Mr. Murray to a marked degree...
...safe to say that none of the Castle Square productions have displayed the wealth of detail, the magnificent costuming and the striking pietures that are to be seen in Rip Van Winkle. The company is most happily cast. Mr. Wolff surprised the vast audience by giving a wonderfully fife-like performance of Rip, the Village Vagabond,- all the nice tone gradations of the sympathetic scenes were most artistically made, and one cannot soon forget the finale of Act 2, where Rip falls asleep surrounded by Hendrick Hudson and his ghostly crew. Miss Lane was charming-she can do nothing badly...