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...Last performance of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson in "Hamlet." Sanders Theatre...
...Johnston Forbes-Robertson has written the Department of English asking for eighteen "tall, strong, clean-shaven men" as supernumeraries in his farewell performance of "Hamlet" in Cambridge. All those wishing to take part should report at Sanders Theatre this morning promptly at 10.30 o'clock. No one should report who cannot arrange to be at all three performances...
...Second performance of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson in "Hamlet." Sanders Theatre...
...returning population of academic Cambridge begins the spring term with a celebration of the Shakspere Tercentenary which is appropriate and adequate. In spite of the fact that a Chicago judge has solemnly ruled that Bacon wrote Shakspere, Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson's three performances of "Hamlet" in Sanders. Theatre have aroused an interest in the University such as no event in the drama has aroused for some years. In fact, it is comforting to have the mooted question forever disposed of, if only the higher court does not rule that the question does not come within its jurisdiction...
...giving his farewell performances in Sanders, Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson not only makes possible for the University a fitting celebration of the Shaksperean anniversary, but confers a delicate compliment upon Harvard. It is doubtful if there is another university in the land where Shakspere is more thoroughly taught and studied and from more varied points of view. Professor Kittredge is the scholar who has made dear the meaning of Shakspere's plays, and who has done most to foster the study of Shakspere in the University. Professor Baker has analyzed Shakspere's dramatic technique, and found in it a source...