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...Ball Room. At 11.30 o'clock, the Shakespeare Festival will start. Festival music will be played by the Pierian Sodality Orchestra. Following the processional march, in which will assemble all the historical characters of the period, including Queen Elizabeth, Sir Walter Raleigh, Richard Burbage, and Shakespeare, various groups will portray characters from many of Shakespeare's tragedies and comedies...
...there was for burlesque-and how truly, safely and amusingly Mr. Davis has handled this scene. Mr. Davis' rescue from the ranks of melodrama is to be applauded. No one likes to see melodrama better than do I; but it must be a pleasure to be able to portray life as it really is and make it vitally interesting. Many a man can visualize a heroine saved from a villain's grasp by the heroic pistol point; but only the rare genius can make the purchase of a new golf course poignant...
...wished to accompany King Boris to the United States to find him an American queen. Another report has it that he wished to make King Boris abdicate so that he could become King of Bulgaria. The greatest value of these yarns, as they probably are, is that they faithfully portray the character of the man. He was in the habit of speaking with almost brutal directness, i. e., his warning to King Ferdinand in September, 1915: " If you plunge this country and its peace-loving people into an unnecessary war, Sir," he said, " you will pay for it with your...
...slightest inappropriate gesture, have made the Moscow Art Players the most finished group of actors on the modern stage. But they are more than highly polished puppets; they are artists chosen for their ability "to synchronize their own feelings with those of the role." They are asked to portray only those characters whose experiences in some way resemble their own. Indeed, the nearest English equivalent to the Russian wording for acting is the phrase "deep feelings...
...famous Wertheimer portraits by John Sargent, American, are once more the nine days' talk of London. Extremely unflattering, scrupulously accurate, they portray the immediate family of a distinguished English Jew, Asher Wertheimer. They were hung Jan. 8 in the National Gallery, and with the event John Sargent became a classic in his own lifetime. Now a strong group in the House of Commons seeks their removal...