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...Sherman has presented Mary Anderson with a valuable antique candlestick to carry in the sleep-walking scene in "Macbeth...
Last Thursday morning the HERALD issued two editions. Nearly 200 copies of the first edition, containing an account of the final scene in the Guiteau??? trial, were sold in the streets before the Boston papers reached Cambridge. The amount of money realized from this undertaking was, of course, small; but if we have succeeded in showing the public that we can present them with the latest news as soon as they can get it from the Boston papers, we rest well satisfied with our enterprise...
...stands at 5f; prolonged applause, 10f; prolonged and noisy applause, 20f; three rounds of applause, 25f; simple recall, 25f; unlimited recalls, 50f; for appearing horror-struck, 5f; murmurs of affright, as if the power to applaud were lost, 15f; a moan, followed by applause at the end of a scene of murder, 12 1/2f; ordinary laughter, 5f; bursts of laughter, 10f; exclamations - "Oh, how droll!" etc., 15f; superlative exclamations - "It is simply magnificent!" "It is unequalled!" 20f. The sifflet a succes, or "the friendly hiss," is not, we learn, supplied under 20f. The item which strikes our fancy most...
...poor, and during the greater part of the time she was on the stage her action was not nearly so strong as the character demanded. Her enunciation was indistinct in many places, and throughout she made use of an assumed tragic voice that was not natural. In her final scene, however, just before Jocasta leaves the stage for the last time, she gave a fine bit of acting, far above the mediocre, for which she was recalled upon the stage...
...production of the "OEdipus," was but fairly interpreted, the chorus being especially weak; but after the experience of an evening's performance, much improvement will undoubtedly be shown in the subsequent representations. That the performance was received with much favor was shown by the fact that after the final scene the audience remained seated until Mr. Riddle and Miss Cayvan reappeared on the stage, when they were greeted with round after round of applause...