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Meanwhile, Boston is having a taste of what such a theatre would be able to do. Walter Hampden, at the Opera House this week and next, is without doubt the greatest patron in America of Genuine repertoire. His program includes both "classic" and modern plays of the best sort; his experimenting with occasional plays that are not as generally popular as they should be, is one of the particular opportunities of such a theatre; and his whole method of procedure, with a company of trained and versatile actors, and an intelligent producing force, is in the right line. Supporting...
...moment of quiet between, the halves even those most biased can applaud the captains. In the attractive age of classic mythology these men would be heroes, eternally sung. In the age of the Church they would be ranked with the saintly, "cloud of witnesses". Neither conceptions have much appeal to this age which rather feels it is a question of ideas, an that the sparks from the anvils of many workers have at last lit a cleansing fire which promises to destroy the evils that they hated and leave the air unpolluted, undisturbed, as they would have...
...Colleges, because the good old days of the Harvard pump and coal grates are passed. In a similar tone newspapers dwell on "the strange sumptuary regulations forbidding, not the keeping of dog or gun in a student's room, but the bringing of a student's automobile within the classic shades...
...Comedie Francaise, is to follow Georges Clemenceau as a visitor to Boston this week. On Monday night Mlle. Sorel and her associates from the first French National Theatre, M. Albert Lambert and M. Louis Ravet, will begin a week's engagement at the Boston Opera House, presenting modern and classic dramatic masterpieces in French, opening in Emile Augier's "L'Aventurlere...
...right, no doubt, that professors should be "progressive" and "modern". So it ought to be gratifying to hear Professor Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard say, in the contemporary classic tongue, that "we have been fed up on our ancestors." The expressive phrase in the mouth of the historian indicates he jauntiness which a Professor of History must show to prove that he has no old-fashioned ideas about "the dignity of history." Beautiful old Professor Torrey of the Cambridge of fifty years ago, who looked like an eighteenth century French Marquis, never dreamed of such felicities of speech...