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Hollis Street.- Wm. H. Crane in "A Fool of Fortune...
...GOODWIN will signalize the second week of his engagement in this city by a revival of a comedy written for him by Henry Guy Carleton, entitled "A Gilded Fool." The play has already made a great success here and when presented at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, had a run of four weeks. In "A Gilded Fool" Mr. Goodwin plays a part that is particularly adapted to his abilities as an actor, which are by no means restricted to humorous or farcical work. As Chauncy Short in "A Gilded Fool" he is called on to act in scenes...
...simile for a smile, but in this pathetic little sketch he has made many eyes bright with moisture. Following "Garrick." Mr. Goodwin will appear as Golightly in Madison Morton's one-act comedy, "Lend Me Five Shillings." At the Saturday matinee Mr. Goodwin will present "A Gilded Fool," by Henry Guy Carleton...
deeply concern us, and control of the future, and yet that it cannot even give us the fool's paradise it promised us; at such a moment it needs some moderation not to be attacking Philistinism by storm, but to mine it through such gradual means as the slow approaches of culture. But the hard unintelligence, which is just now our bane, cannot be conquered by storm, it must be supplied and reduced by culture, by a growth in the variety, fullness, and sweetness of our spiritual life; and this end can only be reached by studying things that...
...books, keep company with the best. It was because the men of the century from 1550 to 1650 were confined to classic society in books, that their minds and styles acquired a dignity of gait and gesture which is now, in the fool's paradise of novels and newspapers, obsolete...