Word: matthison
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lawrence McCarthy, manager of the Boston Opera House, who has tendered the theatre free and who is planning the details of the performance which he will personally direct. The following distinguished artists and theatrical companies have volunteered their services: Mrs. Fiske, Marie Tempest, Sir Herbert Tree, Edith Wynne--Matthison, Lydia Lindgren, Mary Ryan and company in the second act of "The Hour Glass"; Clifton Crawford, Margaret. Romaine and John Charles Thomas, from "Her Soldier Boy" at the Shubert; Ernest Truex, Alice Dovey, Oscar Shaw and Julia Mills, of the "Very Good Eddie" company; the Aborn Opera Company, and acts from...
...Vitality is the essence of the performance. The Wolsey of Sir Herbert Tree, the King Henry of Mr. Lyn Harding, the Queen Katharine of Miss Edith Wynne Matthison seem to have stepped from the canvasses of Holbein at Hampton Court, so veracious are they in posture and costume. But they do more than fill the eye. The vigor and pulse of their reality and the magnetism of their life touch our emotions and make us understand the human qualities of these princely beings...
...four heroic women: Hecuba, queen of Troy; Cassandra, her frenzied daughter; Andromache, wife of Hector; and lastly, the false Helen. Amidi the droning chants of the woeful choruses we see the suffering of these four. The scene in which Andromache played with spirit and sweetness by Miss Edith Wynne Matthison, parts from her little son Astyonax, is a dramatic episode of great power. Miss McCarthy as Hecuba is a stately queen and Chrystal Herne and Gladys Hanson are excellent in the roles of Cassandra and Helen of Troy. Mr. Barker has done much for the drama in his past productions...
Granville Barker, the distinguished English producer who will produce "Iphigenia in Tauris" and "Trojan Women," in the Stadium on the afternoons of May 18 and 19, has announced the engagement of Miss Edith Wynne Matthison and Miss Lilla McCarthy to take two of the leading roles in "Trojan Women." The engagement of Miss Matthison is a re-establishment of an association between Mr. Barker and Miss McCarthy as managers, and Miss Matthison, which was noteworthy because of the first appearance of "Trojan Women" which was given in the Court Theatre, London, in 1904. Professor Gilbert Murray's translation...