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...brilliant success. Keene possesses a wonderful power of facial expression; his gestures are manly and in good taste, and his voice is unsurpassed. He shows the evil effects of his Western tour in his tendency to mistake rant for passion, in his desire, to use theatrical parlance, to catch the gallery. Besides this, he wholly lacks the studied method of the Booth school, to which he is generally regarded as belonging. During the week he will appear in "Richard III.," "Macbeth," and "Fool's Revenge...
...first thing to be done was to call at the office of the University Richter and get a card admitting me to the matriculation ceremonies, whenever they might take place. I found the office of this functionary without much difficulty, but was unfortunately too late to catch its occupant, it being already past his office-hours, as a placard on the door informed me. Early next morning, therefore, I presented myself again at he office and obtained a card for 2 P.M. the following day. "Slow but sure," I said to myself as I went home again, having finished...
...account of the dead boughs and thorny vines that impeded his way; then realizing that he must be on the wrong path, he stopped to consider. The girl could not be far from him, that was sure; he therefore rushed to this side and to that, vainly hoping to catch a glimpse of the fair. At last, tired out, he sat down to rest; and then, for the first time, he noticed that day was nearly done. He was frightened, now, for the girl's sake; he shouted, "Tue! Tue! You will be lost! I promise not to touch...
THERE was a soft, timid knock at the door. "Shades of U. 5!" exclaimed the Lamprey, "I would n't have anybody catch me reading these!" as he dexterously concealed the papers before him in the sleeve of his dress coat. The door moaned on its hinges, and in glided the Ibex in gorgeous new shoulder braces...
Whistles a catch that the world has heard...