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...Opera" came for a "one-night stand" after winning London for three years, and the whole of this country during an extensive tour. But New Haven, accustomed to passing independent judgment, was inclined to be inhospitable. Professor John Million Berdan, of Yale and Early Tudor fame, took the double role of Burke and Boswell, calling the Play banal and immoral. A good citizeness of the town, alarmed by these aspersions, appealed to the police; and a censoring sortie ensued which stirred the Yale News to earnest defense, playing Johnson to Berdan's Boswell. The performance went on but the increase...
...veteran poet" celebrating his ninetieth birthday with his adulous family and honored guest, does the best acting that has been seen on the Copley stage, or perhaps any Boston stage, this season, His shy pride, his innocent reminiscing, have the assurance of the genuine "literary lion." The role is a difficult one, for it involves a double pose-but there, again, we are dangerously near the "truth." Mr. Clive has become a meticulous Boswell to this poet, and has taken on the very mannerisms of a Vietorian "social secretary." As his wife, Miss Belmore shows just enough motherly affection...
Miss Adelyn Bushnell as Madame is above criticism. Her performance was excellent from start to finish, and her splendid interpretation of a difficult role was highly pleasing. Miss Layng and Mr. Remley also deserve honorable mention...
...Hector's orchestra gave an interesting musical program ranging from Beethoven's finale from the Fifth Symphony to selections of classical jazz, whatever that may be. Next week Miss Bushnell takes the leading role in "Enter Madame...
This play, written by Wilson Cullison and Avery Hapwood, is successfully acted by the Somerville Players. The plot is a rapid succession of situations, resulting in untold complication. Miss Anne Hamilton in the role of Gertie, the heroine, is most attractive; and Mr. Harry Bond as Gertie's husband, and Mr. Halbert Brown as the clownish butler, do justice to difficult roles...