Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...American comedy in three acts, "Is Marriage a failure?" It is an effective protest against illti-med interference by father-in-law and mother-in-law in the domestic economies of young married life. The comedy abounds in the heartiest kind of fun. The pathos is all in one scene, when Mr. Robson writes a manly letter of farewell to his young wife, whose overdose of father and mother has brought about a senseless and cruel separation. Again Mr. Robson shows his versatility wins "the tribute of a falling tear." Throughout, his treatment of the grave question is characteristic...
...ball was mentioned in the presence of Yale or Princeton men. Now, thanks to the work of Mr. Cumnock and his associates, they had obtained a right to pass opinions on the greatest of college sports. "When the brilliant sunset at Springfield on that memorable Saturday had tinged the scene with its crimson glow, the heart of every Harvard man felt warm with the grateful radiance." Such an event enables the graduates of New York to walk with prouder step and more erect heads; and if ever in the course of the pressing duties of life the graduates lose something...
...Forum scene from Julius Caesar was listened to with the deepest interest and took remarkably well. It was easily Mr. Hayes's best rendering and was well executed...
...Hayes will give a miscellaneous reading in Sanders Theatre this evening. The programme will consist of two parts; part 1. The Story of Littie Dombey, Dickens; Brother Anderson's Sermon, Rev. T. K. Beecher; Julius Caesar (Act III, Scene II, The Roman Forum), Shakspere; A Senator Entangled, (from the Dodge Club), De Mille. Part 2. Father Phil's Collection, Lover; The Fourth of July Celebration at Jonesville, Marietta Holley...
...latest novel by W. Heimburg, which has been translated, is "A Sister's Love." It is a novel full of power, and arouses one's sympathy to a wonderful degree. It is a scene from the lives of two Germans, a brother and a sister, between whom there existed the truest affection. The first break in the joy of their association comes when a suitor appears for Anna; but he, after a mental struggle on her part is put aside, for Anna has promised to remain always with Kiaus. Another cloud appears when the daughter of an old friend...