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Theatricals are all the rage in Princeton this season. The Dramatic Association is hard at work rehearsing Garrick's "Country Girl," and if last year's successes can be taken as a criterion, we predict a treat for all. The club has excellent material and seems endowed with an unusual amount of perseverance and enthusiasm...
...studied. You must impersonate; you must not recite. It has been the custom in England to demand a false inflection in tragedy, while naturalism is demanded in comedy. It is not the measured recitation of a long speech, but a short sentence which is often the more effective. Garrick's, 'Prithee, undo this button,' was remembered long after his more stately passages were forgotten. The actor who relaxes from a natural to an artificial tone loses force. To be natural on the stage is more difficult, but a grain of nature is worth a bushel of artifice. Nature...
BOSTON THEATRE.- Lawrence Barrett in "The Merchant of Venice," and "David Garrick." Performance...
...decided not to follow Shak-sperian tradition as regards the actor's dress. Whatever would be gained in historical interest would be counterbalanced by the loss of all that was Roman in the play. Thus it is related of Garrick in Macbeth, that he played the part of the Moor in a powdered gray wig; and it is probable that in Shakspere's time there was an equal conformity with the prevailing English fashions. This feature of the play the Shakspere club does not care to reproduce. The attempt will be made, instead, to imitate with historical fidelity the costume...
PARK THEATRE. "David Garrick." Robertson's play, "David Garrick," the groundwork of which he found in an old French drama of the same name, is one of the most pleasing of his works. It abounds in bright and humorous passages, and at the same time, there is a pathos, running through the two principal parts, of an exceedingly refined quality. To say that Mr. Sothern brings this out to its fullest extent, is simply to repeat that he is a finished actor and a gentleman. The support is not very good, the tendency being to overact the comic parts...