Word: tree
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is a wealth of spectacular grandeur, color, magnificence, in Sir Herbert Tree's version of Shakespeare's "Henry VIII," which opened at the Hollis Theatre last night. The parts, are in the main, well played, the costumes highly effective, and it is indeed a great pity that better settings could not have been designed, for many of the otherwise impressive scenes. Why in a play so impressionistic as this, a play where the attention is focused not upon the scenery, but on the players, should this attention of ours be diverted by a wavering tree trunk, grotesque lillies jutting...
...portrayed by Sir Herbert Tree, Wolsey is the shrewd, stern, diplomat of history, quick to see the turn of the tide, arrogant in his power, forward even in his fall. Miss Mathison's Queen Katharine was good, as her parts usually are. She is best, as always when subdued, tending to become theatrical when roused to any great pitch of emotion. Miss Mackay's Anne Bullen could hardly have been bettered, portraying as it did the willful, attractive personality of Henry's second wife. But the master characterization of all was Lyn Harding's King Henry. The easy going, blustering...
...should miss seeing the superb production of 'Henry VIII,' which Sir Herbert Tree, the leading actor-manager of the English stage, is bringing to the Hollis Street Theatre tonight for a limited engagement. It is fortunate that all members of the University can now witness the pageant-play which was one of Sir Herbert's notable successes at his Majesty's Theatre, London, and which he brought to America last spring as part of his contribution to the celebration of the Shakespeare Tercentenary. Not for twenty years has this play been given in Boston, not since the performance...
...Vitality is the essence of the performance. The Wolsey of Sir Herbert Tree, the King Henry of Mr. Lyn Harding, the Queen Katharine of Miss Edith Wynne Matthison seem to have stepped from the canvasses of Holbein at Hampton Court, so veracious are they in posture and costume. But they do more than fill the eye. The vigor and pulse of their reality and the magnetism of their life touch our emotions and make us understand the human qualities of these princely beings...
...Herbert Tree has not played in Boston for nineteen years. During this period he has made His Majesty's Theatre in London a great national institution devoted to the arts of the theatre and has brought into his service the finest actors of the time and distinguished artists, musicians and scholars. He has kept Shakespeare on the stage. From 1897 to the present time he has made each year a magnificent production of one of Shakespeare's plays: 'The Merry Wives of Windsor,' 'Hamlet.' 'Julius Caesar,' 'King John,' 'A. Midsummer Night's Dream,' 'Twelfth Night,' 'King Richard III,' 'The Tempest...