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...rich Italian of the new comer; but the English was Shakspere's, while the name of the translator of "Amleto" is not preserved. To almost all, it is Hamlet in pantomime; and the labor of mentally connecting Shakspere's words with the action of the player can hardly fail to detract somewhat from the spectator's pleasure. But, pantomime and all, Salvini's Hamlet interests and pleases. Throughout it recalls Booth much more than Fechter, to our mind. In the scene where the ghost first appears, a great deal of the acting seems strangely familiar, and elsewhere throughout the play...
...performance. Edwin Booth's rendering had been for many years unequalled and perhaps unapproached, and when we heard of the new actor, whose light hair and broken English had won such triumphs abroad, all were impatient to make the comparison, confident, no doubt, that Booth's glory could not fail to be increased by it. Fechter came well advertised to this country, for his arrival was preceded by a letter from Charles Dickens, who seemed fairly carried away by the man's conception of the part, and perhaps a little anxious withal, lest the judgment of American theatre goers should...
...that sinful place. This objection, however, was groundless, since the strict training of the oarsmen would effectually prevent any dissipation on their part; but the present case is different. The slight training required of amateur ball-players would be no protection to the poor youths, and yard-sticks would fail to measure the length of our faces, on our return to Cambridge, when we heard that the ruin of the present players (to be sure, a mere trifle in itself) had destroyed the Harvard Nine, and that none but Yale and Princeton were left to struggle for the championship! There...
...years. To carry on this broader study it is necessary to arrange the plays in true chronological order, which the Society proposes to do by an examination of the gradual change in Shakspere's versification through his life; and, for any one anxious to understand the poet, it cannot fail to be interesting to read the familiar plays under the light thrown on them from time by the papers and discussions of this Society. It is pleasant to know that the founders of the Society do not intend to confine its benefits to the number, necessarily small, of those...
...brave Sophomore," who "filled up his glass" with the "jolly crowd" at the American House on the 13th can fail to remember the occasion as one of the pleasantest in his college course. Nearly three fourths of the class were present, and filled three large dining-tables...