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...finished, and was carried through with that spirit and vivacity which always characterizes his acting. Mr. Wigglesworth performed his feminine part gracefully, and carried away his audience by his occasional touches of tenderness and pathos. Mr. Allen's performance showed thorough study and complete mastery of a somewhat difficult part. In the farce we have to notice the great dramatic talent of Mr. Isham, who was decidedly the attraction, the play being nothing in itself. The hall was fairly filled, but not by any means crowded, though the number present did not probably give a correct idea of the number...
...very firmness of purpose that the conception differs from that of Booth, who portrays Hamlet's vacillating character side by side with the impulse and filial love which combats and finally overcomes it. This is "higher" art, and, to us, it is more interesting. The conception is a more difficult one, and it is the skill shown in overcoming the difficulty that gives such pleasure to those...
...theory with regard to money and its value might have been as tenable as the other before either was tested. But when one has failed to stand the test of usefulness, it is difficult to see how it can reasonably be advocated for another trial at the cost of public credit. Representatives from the West and South, apparently ignorant of the subject, and unwilling to be persuaded by their opponents, might at least listen to a few lessons from the learned and anxious pens that appeal to them from the chief cities of the country...
...other hand, it seems very difficult to assign any sufficient reason for prohibiting smoking in a room of this kind, as none of the arguments which usually hold against it apply in the present case. The old gentlemen and middle-aged females who object to tobacco on principle seldom find their way into Lower Massachusetts; and it is safe to say that not one in a hundred of those who do frequent the room really dislike to have tobacco smoke around them...
...length of the plays, but we must pay a passing compliment to Mr. McMillan, who took the leading parts in both, and distinguished them by so marked a difference of conception and style that a fresh actor seemed to walk upon the stage in the second play, - a difficult achievement for an actor who has to play two parts in the same evening. His acting was marked by a care for details and a full appreciation of all the "points" of the part. Mr. Swift and Mr. Elwood were excellent in their respective parts, the latter introducing, on the second...