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This week Stuart Robson completes his engagement at the Tremont with the presentation of A. D. Gordon's new American comedy in three acts, "Is Marriage a failure?" It is an effective protest against illti-med interference by father-in-law and mother-in-law in the domestic economies of young married life. The comedy abounds in the heartiest kind of fun. The pathos is all in one scene, when Mr. Robson writes a manly letter of farewell to his young wife, whose overdose of father and mother has brought about a senseless and cruel separation. Again Mr. Robson shows...
...with more pleasure by the theatre-going public than that of Mr. E. H. Sothern, which begins tonight at the Hollis Street Theatre. Very few actors occupy the warm place in the hearts of the lovers of dramatic art that Mr. Sothern does; and it is not because his father was a great popular favorite before him, but because of his own sterling abilities and charming personality. He will be seen during the present engagement in a new play, "The Maister of Woodbarrow," by Jerome K. Jerome...
...culture. A writer on that school, Epictetus made a great point of the effect that philosophy produced on a man. The other element of the philosophy, the religious element, was beautifully set forth in the writings of Seneca. His doctrines were that God was a friend and a loving father to all. Even the most miserable of men felt God's munificence. Man was a living sluine of God. This was a very sublime religion, and the writings of Seneca seem almost like a modern sermon...
...comic Irish sketch of "Father Phil's Collection," was a bright and clever piece and afforded the reader many opportunities which were availed of. "A Senator Entangled" and "The Fourth of July Celebration at Jonesville" were, as their titles announce, American caricatures. The latter closed the entertainment...
...Sanders Theatre this evening. The programme will consist of two parts; part 1. The Story of Littie Dombey, Dickens; Brother Anderson's Sermon, Rev. T. K. Beecher; Julius Caesar (Act III, Scene II, The Roman Forum), Shakspere; A Senator Entangled, (from the Dodge Club), De Mille. Part 2. Father Phil's Collection, Lover; The Fourth of July Celebration at Jonesville, Marietta Holley...