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...Lord President of the Council. Fears were entertained that he might be reappointed Foreign Secretary; and rightly enough, for as Disraeli felt about Lord John Russell, Nihil tetigit quod non perturbavit*. But, as The Westminster Gazette said: "Lord Curzon could not have returned to the Foreign Office. His role is to speak fraternally with foreign kings; and there are so few left that it is as well to lay him aside in purple and fine linen...
Jeritza's triumph came later in the first week. Wagner's Tannhaüser was her medium. Never more beautiful to the eye, she succeeded in making the too-good-to-be-true Elisabeth almost pathetically human. Herr Laubenthal in the title role saved himself no effort, and therein lay his defeat...
Chaliapin's first Boris of the season met with a conflicting reception. Greeted enthusiastically by the audience and most critics, Ernest Newman, brilliant guest critic of The New York Evening Post (TiME, Oct. 13), was disappointed. He had not heard the Russian basso in this role since 1914. He found the great voice gone, the acting selfconscious...
...Colonial Theatre in "Stepping Stones" will be the guest of the Union at a luncheon to be given in the Living Room on Thursday, November 13. Mr. Stone will speak briefly following the luncheon. Fred Stone has been connected with the stage for 40 years, appearing in various roles during that time, but made his greatest success as a comedian. In "Stepping Stones" he plays the leading masculine part, and his daughter, Miss Dorothy Stone, carries the chief feminine role...
Miss Violet Paget plays the part of the disguised society leader in as convincing a manner as possible. In the role of Captain Dorvaston, Mr. Hugh C. Buckler makes a good try at the "good-hearted giant" type of army officer, a necessary feature of most light comedies laid in England. When Miss Katherine Standing, who plays the part of Lucy Pillenger, comes on the stage, even the lightness of the comedy becomes a burden to be cast aside, cars are closed, and eyes open wide, very wide...