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...source of unwaining pleasure to see the burden of the action slip from the chief actor to the subordinates without a sickening sense of unintended comic relief, even without any unpleasant realization that they are subordinates. To Horatio, always a sympathetic part, Mr. Lewis brings a personality and a voice that suggest more than a little of the charm which bound Hamlet to him. So small a part as the First Player was made memorable by Mr. Collamores delivery of Aeneas' tale to Dido, and his ability subtly to distinguish the interwoven parts he played. As for Polonius, though...
...comic acting of Mr. Robert Woolsey, in the part of Henry Watkins, the New Jersey judge, is largely what raises "The Right Girl", now playing at the Park Square Theatre, above the average of musical comedies. His work, though sometimes labored, is always entertaining, and brought enthusiastic applause from an audience which seemed pleased by the performance in general, and Mr. Woolsey in particular. Mr. Woolsey was also fortunate in having the best lines, and his remarks about "forgetting to touch second" and "Run along and count your marbles" were particularly successful...
Life in Budapest at present is not unlike a scene out of a comic opera. The population, in overthrowing the monarchy, also repealed the old royal edict against duelling which was found necessary in order to keep the Army from killing itself off in times of peace. Since an army is now held to be a menace to the freedom of the proletariat, it was thought wise to provide a safe way for getting rid of it. Hence the adoption of the duel...
...club is known far and wide as a world-beating aggregation, the Ibis and his followers have so falsified reports of their prowess that the betting odds are even. This will only be the second defeat which the CRIMSON will have handed to Lampy this year, since the cowardly comic was afraid to meet us on the ice during the winter...
...four acts and many scenes of the play were mostly of a comic order. The humor, if it was not always up to the standard of the Pat and Mike stories, was strangely boisterous and effective; nothing was appreciated more than hero Donovan's brazen nerve in Lawyer Waddy's office when he succeeded in striking a match on the bald pate of the frightened attorney. There were of course, really clever lines, all too many of which escaped the observation of the Collegians and Cavanagh in the boxes; subtility was not expected. As for plot, what more is necessary...