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Playgoers; a domestic episode   (  ) Author Pinero, Arthur Wing, Sir, 1855-1934 Title Playgoers; a domestic episode Publisher New York, S. French; London...

Playgoers; a domestic episode   (  ) Author Pinero, Arthur Wing, Sir, 1855-1934 Title Playgoers; a domestic episode Publisher New York, S. French; London...

Repertory: Magazine of Plays, Players, and Playgoers   (  ) Title The Repertory: Magazine of Plays, Players, and Playgoers Description Magazine focuses on the...

The playgoers' year-book, for 1888. Story of the stage the past year with especial reference to Boston   (  ) Author Wingate, Charles E. L. (Charles Edgar...

The playgoers' year-book, for 1888. Story of the stage the past year with especial reference to Boston ..   (  ) Author Wingate, Charles E. L. (Charles...

were no listings for the film title in films and no listings for Logan, Playgoers' or Morgan (printed the poster) in artwork. There's no evidence of renewal...

The journal of a London playgoer from 1851-1866   (  ) Author Morley, Henry, 1822-1894 Title The journal of a London playgoer from 1851-1866 Publisher...

The journal of a London playgoer from 1851-1866   (  ) Author Morley, Henry, 1822-1894 Title The journal of a London playgoer from 1851-1866 Publisher...

her sincerity and her refined beauty made all immediate impression upon playgoers. One of her recent pictures is "The Golden Claw," an Ince-Triangle production...

''[[The Mountaineers]]'', scanned from "The Mountaineers, by Guy Eden and Reginald Somerville", ''Playgoer and Society Illustrated'', October 1909, p.5...

recollections of an old playgoer. A sketch of some old Cork theatres   (  ) Author Flynn, J. W Title The random recollections of an old playgoer. A sketch of some...

Description Shakespeare and the modern stage.--Shakespeare and the Elizabethan playgoer.--Shakespeare in oral tradition.--Pepys and Shakespeare.--Mr. Benson and...

"--Pref Shakespeare and the modern stage.--Shakespeare and the Elizabethan playgoer.--Shakespeare in oral tradition.--Pepys and Shakespeare.--Mr. Benson and...

'twere strongly fought. fill. ! As to the playgoers of the Restoration we have abundant — : PLAYGOERS. information from the poet Dryden, and the...

uneasy feeling that ideas in the theatre are driving the great crowd of playgoers to musical comedy, and romping farce, and spectacle. I think, however...

write them. My one wish has been to gain for myself and to spread amongst playgoers a knowledge of those facts and conditions and rules which will help to...

ideas feeling that ideas in the theatre are driving the great crowd of playgoers to musical comedy, and romping farce, and spectacle. I think, however...

insatiable ! It never has enough years playgoers have increased in ! In numbers by — THE PLAYGOERS forty-four per cent total number ; 3 while...

uneasy feeling that ideas in the theatre are driving the great crowd of playgoers to musical comedy, and romping farce, and spectacle. I think, however...

uneasy feeling that ideas in the theatre are driving the great crowd of playgoers to musical comedy, and romping farce, and spectacle. I think, however...

please the general days. body of playgoers of their If a dramatist has something to say that the general body of playgoers will not accept, let him, according...

"--Pref Shakespeare and the modern stage.--Shakespeare and the Elizabethan playgoer.--Shakespeare in oral tradition.--Pepys and Shakespeare.--Mr. Benson and...

fearlessly on this that quite matter. And may playgoers, actors, I pay you and English playgoers the compliment of thinking that you would wish me...

of the legislature —to provide refreshment for bond fide playgoers, and for bond fide playgoers alone—cannot be secured, there being no test by which to...

--III. Prospero's Island, by Edward Everett Hale.--IV. Letters of an old playgoer, by Matthew Arnold Subjects: Drama; Theater Language English Publication...

insight could make it, it remains that we should look, as vexed English playgoers, to the good that the English theatre may yet suck from this play. No...

Whitehall Court and the Great Hall, Chevy Chace. Playgoers, being by that time mostly poor playgoers, wanted Preface xxii to see how the rich live;...

Whitehall Court and the Great Hall, Chevy Chace.' Playgoers, being by that time mostly poor playgoers, wanted Preface xxii how the rich live; wanted...

please the general body of playgoers of their ; days. If a dramatist has something to say that the general body of playgoers will not accept, let him...

occasion to represent. assemble at a pit door some of their calling they playgoers who hours before the play begins, The autograph as a priceless their...

Whitehall Court and the Great Hall, Chevy Chace. Playgoers, being by that time mostly poor playgoers, : : XXII Preface wanted to see how the rich...

Whitehall Court and the Great Hall, Chevy Chace. Playgoers, being by that time mostly poor playgoers, : xxu Preface wanted to see how the rich live...

Seats will not 'be Northrop*; Helen Maf't is zUs ; Lucille- reSepved; playgoers will be, seated on a first F. Egan; Edward R,__Kipp*} Dorothy' come ,“first'''served<...

PIARTHUR NERO WING regarded is alike by critics and cultivat- ed playgoers as the leading author among living English dramatists; this position he...

Portraits. MISS MILLWARD. A® Mr. Abingdon exists in the minds of the playgoers only as a hardened villain, ready at all times for “ treasons, stratagems...

had always to pay attention to the desires and to the demands of the playgoers. In the sixteenth century Castelvetro had had In the sevenof this truth...

To . . 30 Pinero, A. W.57 Pinero, Mr., and the Literary Drama .... 3 Playgoers’ Club, The . . 273 Plays of the Month 4T> IOI> 220, 281, 339 Poetry: “...

the any more handy critics popular to the mark missile. fellow-playgoers wet blanket, a what they actor for or rocks, him as a They " know...

Burlesque 25 were burlesqued in the most amusing way, Little Doctor and playgoers who saw " " Faust," Young Fra Diavolo," Robbing ' " The Bohemian Gyurl...

excite the bitter jeal- ousy of another woman. Now, I submit that the playgoers, when they perceive that the woman who is meant to be stung to a point...

impersonation requires a discern- ment far beyond the great mass of playgoers; and when so long a time of necessity elapses between an l9l actor's...

had always to pay attention to the desires and to the demands of the playgoers. In the sixteenth century Castelvetro more than a glimpse of this truth...

recognised, and the comic witch vanished for ever from the sight of London playgoers. Kemble had previously made an attempt at Bath to dispense with the...

ever after the story of Let German " within the story of Macbeth." playgoers glance back at the great and Germany valorous soldier, full of dauntless...

eccentricities, at any rate, must have made him a well-known figure to the playgoers of the day, and he must often have enjoyed the pleasure (for a pleasure...

novices, model, or a society schoolgirl, would not have done for the playgoers of the early forties. Actors and actresses in those unjustly to speak...

to voluntary organizations of intelligent or would-be intelligent ^ playgoers, who have combined to provide themselves with forms of drama which specially...

four theatres at most served the needs of the town and the number of playgoers was very limited, there grew up quite a happy, if at times inconvenient...

impersonation requires a discern- ment far beyond the great mass of playgoers; and when so long a time of necessity elapses between an l9l actor's...

impersonation requires a discern- ment far beyond the great mass of playgoers; and when so long a time of necessity elapses between an 1:93 actor's...

see M. Filon stripping To this day the spangles from Bulwer Lytton. and playgoers Lytton remains an idol of English theatre, a lasting proof of their inability...

Dublin; later, as an actor, he shared with Garrick the applause of London playgoers; and, finally, he distinguished himself as a fashionable teacher of oratory...

effects tinuity of discursive rhetoric action. It was this Our playgoers, as they admitted to him, considered only each facet of the play as it...

the class which earns from eighteen to thirty shillings a and In playgoers lining the pavements week a dull lodging or in sedentary with its...

Dublin later, as an actor, he shared with Garrickthe applause of London playgoers; and, finally, he distinguished himself as a fashionable teacher of oratory...

the theatre a succes- to this base And sion of new generations of playgoers, audiences potentially fine and alert, bringing to their pleasure a naive...

little in the modern metropolitan audience. In the long lines of waiting playgoers fining the pavements outside our fashionable theatres every evening, the...

Conflict as Dramatic Principles — — The Importance — The Duty of Playgoers to Dramatist and Actors Choice and Treatment of the Action PAGE — ...

authority on theatrical matters.” — Blyth Weekly News. “ Though no great playgoers ourselves, we can cordially recommend The Theatre to our readers. It is...

Theatre ? The Playgoer. To me it seems that Acting is the Art of the Theatre. The Stage Director. Is a part, then, equal to a whole ? The Playgoer. No, of course...

persons on the stage. freely, the needs of the town and the number of playgoers was very limited, there grew up quite a happy, if at times inconvenient...

ground about educating, for the le reason very simpl< that all classes of playgoers are much better educated than formerly, and therefore there is less need...

and Brooke compared — Sullivan's Richard III. a revelation to old playgoers His Othello a standpoint for comparison— Close of his first engagement...

revived by modern managers, and are unknown to the present generation of playgoers. 2. The production of original plays of the highest class, which for...

delightful she was in 31 such characters will never be forgotten by old playgoers !) and, probably very much against his will, Mr. Hare figured as Zerlina...

Wondafnl Bigbl* in the Onmcs roodflDij ■ n^^itheibvl '. ■ TODUPDi. Playgoers . ■ ■ ■ Owen Gorton ■ ■ ■ ■ idUederu ■ PhttDiea, Old aBdlCaOani...

to voluntary organizations of intelligent or would-be intel- A ] playgoers, ligent selves who have combined to provide themspecially interest...

to announcement he mentions was that the practice novel to English playgoers. which the auditorium of the have undergone little change for very many...

them virtually foreign and unintelligible to the majority of actors and playgoers. Only when the plays of Chekhov, so kindred to Turgenev's in tone and...

Principles Choice and Treatment of the Action — The Duty — Theme of Playgoers to CHAPTER PAGE — and Events Contrast Popular Appeal in the — The...

performance have them. We salute as they pass always membered by the old playgoers as Musical Two Buzzards. the high soprano and effulgent bass many Director...

English players will get started, under the patronage of the American Playgoers’ Society, or some such uplifting organization. The American actor can...

Choice and Treatment of the Theme The Importance of Action The Duty of Playgoers to Dramatist and Actors 65 to Characters, Objects, — — — . CHAPTER...

Englishman modern metropolitan audience. In the long lines of waiting playgoers lining the pavements outside our fashionable theatres every evening, the...

little in the modern metropolitan audience. In the long lines of waiting playgoers lining the pavements outside our fashionable theatres every evening, the...

skeleton to be held at bay? Then Mr. Traill says that the majority of playgoers do not want the skeleton. This is only another way of saying that he and...

address to the Old Playgoers' Club, of London, England, an audience of dramatists, critics, novelists dicted that the day and playgoers, the writer pre-...

her sincerity and her refined beauty made an immediate impression upon playgoers. One of her recent pictures is “The Golden Claw,” an Ince-Triangle production...

houses are under rarely aside, America drama or for the taste of our playgoers prefer native to theatres ? American managers and they, Mr Frohman...

to that the practice he mentions was fair announcement to English playgoers. different parts into theatre was divided seem to jioy,e4 The which...

building the Theater under protection of a royal patent, either players or playgoers were otherwise than content with the primitive histrionic conditions obtaining...

served persons on the stage. the needs of the town and the number of playgoers was freely, very limited, there grew up quite a happy, if at times inconvenient...

through a specially appointed com- mittee to furnish wise direction to playgoers and a reduced price for plays worth seeing. Realize also the wonderful...

least some seventy or a hundred To fulfil thousand contemporary London playgoers. I had this condition was hopelessly out of my power. no taste for what...

15 A CELEBRATED OLD PLAYHOUSE. and there are several patriarchal playgoers town who remember her now Duke her interest In the course of conversation...

them virtually foreign and unintelligible to the majority of actors and playgoers. Only when the plays of Chekhov, so kindred to Turgenev's in tone and...

a lad I When I liked to hear playgoers discuss the favourites of their time. But nowadays the young playgoer is firmly convinced and persuaded...

which On many playgoers both these occasions will I remember. still was still an under- graduate, but old enough as a playgoer to have a vivid...

Terence's Eunuchus^ whilst Crowne confined himself to politics and gave playgoers in 1683 a gallery of Titus Oates, his lawyer the half-crazed Aaron Smith...

to having served to introduce The young orange-girl was habitual playgoers, and probably no more familiar passage in than the one in which he speaks...

fire outbreak. THEATRE BUILDINGS. io Measures for protecting the playgoers against fire and smoke. 3. 4. Means for the protection of the stage...

pleasing endings, characteristic of the work of box-office playwrights. With playgoers there appears to be an increasing desire for serious, natural and thoughtful...

compared him with Georges Ohnet, and found fault with his metaphors. And the playgoers of Cottonopolis were depressed, and bestowed such scant favour upon the...

extinct among theatrical audiences ” and that is in the affirmative. Surely playgoers ought to have consideration for the feelings of those who strive to amuse...

seemed to have no end. It was Sir Henry Irving taking leave of the London playgoers on the last night of his season, a season made memorable at every performance...

is now known Marlowe. In Kansas then about five years of age, to playgoers as Julia City, Frances Frost, as she was then called, had her first...

the end of the play, to the intense astonishment of the most hardened playgoers, there is something sensational to talk about afterwards. The play is...

anxiously awaiting the expected laughter. And sure enough the fashionable playgoers could be heard tittering and giggling (so she thought) by the middle of...

that, without pretending that I could appeal to a very w^ide circle of playgoers, I could reason- ably sound a few of our more enlightened managers as...

speaks with greater authority than Mr. portions. whose plays are known to playgoers throughout the Anglo-Saxon world. In the Preface to "The Theater of Ideas"...

the foot¬ lights she had not been altogether out of the minds of old playgoers was proved some months ago, when she reappeared at the Globe Theatre,...

her sincerity and her refined beauty made an immediate impression upon playgoers. One of her recent pictures is "The Golden Claw," an Ince-Triangle production...

no injus- author or the of the cast, to say that to hundreds of playgoers the one ance is memory of that performMaude Adams' portrayal of the...

above that the ; shilling gallery with benches for the poorer class of playgoers. On nearly every one of the essential features of the contemporary theatre...

that of at least some seventy or a hundred thousand contemporary London playgoers. To fulfil I had this condition was hopelessly out of my power. no taste...

interest or a hundred seventy some least at of that but nation, London playgoers. To fulhi But thousand contemporary power. I had condition was hopelessly...

that of at least some seventy or a hundred thousand contemporary London playgoers. To I had fulfil this condition was hopelessly out of my power. no taste...

ago, in an address to the Old Playgoers' Club, of London, England, an audience of dramatists, critics, and playgoers, the writer preday was not far...

author or the other members of the cast, to say that to hundreds of playgoers the one memory of that perform- ance is Maude Adams' portrayal of the...

Whitehall Court and the Great Hall, Chevy Chace. Playgoers, being by that time mostly poor playgoers, : : XXII Preface to see how the rich live wanted...

sacrificed to this base laughter. And a succession of new generations of playgoers, audiences potentially fine and alert, bringing and almost joyous...

from the footlights she had not been altogether out of the minds of old playgoers was proved bye ? '' some months at the ago, when she reappeared...

" is still, MR. PUNCH AT THE PLAY SOMETHING FOR THE MONEY 1 the Playgoers (From Conversation Book. Coming HAVE I Edition.) only paid three...

theater, this book is offered to the public. There are playgoers and playgoers. The best playgoer is he whose enjoyment is greatest. To give pleasthe most...

the most part, with the plays which had pleased earlier generations of playgoers; and these shrank from the risk of failure in untried novelties. Then...

Melnotte Sullivan as Prospero and Romeo PresentaSullivan's tion from the playgoers of Manchester Mrs Glover and Sullivan in The Othello criticised TJiraZs-Benjamin...

^ Magazine of Plays^ Players —and a Program ^ Playgoers pia^^ra it. Cojilrg vl Henry Jewett Players ( K. B. Clire Arrangad AIpkabatieallr) ...

speaks with greater authority than Mr. Jones, whose plays are known to playgoers throughout the Anglo-Saxon world. In the Preface to "The Theater of Ideas"...

speaks with greater authority than Mr. Jones, whose plays are known to playgoers throughout the Anglo-Saxon world. In the Preface to "The Theater of Ideas"...

as a whole, and have also kept any considerable portion of cultivated playgoers from forming a body of sound dramatic opinion amongst themselves....

as a whole, and have also kept any considerable portion of cultivated playgoers from forming a body of sound dramatic opinion amongst themselves....

what is bad, of what is right and what is wrong the recognition by the playgoers, that is, as well as by the workers on — the other side of the footlights...

"Letty" is so full of brilliant and witty passages that the most blase playgoers sat up. Pinero's moral is that virtue, like charity, belongs at home....

Beaumont and Fletcher won C xviii 3 INTRODUCTION favour of the Jacobean playgoers. This necessity for a story sufficient to arouse and to the sustain the...

beafinningf to the end, he met with the unbounded appreciation of the playgoers of the United States of America. From Their loyalty to him never wavered...

the end of the play, to the intense astonishment of the most hardened playgoers, there about afterwards. The is something sensational to talk is a...

office standard. The the theatrical profession field — there few playgoers and to doubt, and to join as and Junius Brutus Booth w not accept...

it is Cum- Kelly, taught by example forth by precept. The bulk of playgoers were never converted to these principles, but they obtained in were...

Sfopgrtonj A Magazine of Plays Players Playgoers —and a Program iiettrg m, , , 3*m*tt ||iag*r 0 (Eopleg ®If*atre &=> 2|enrp STetoett diapers...

theater, this book is offered to the public. There are playgoers and playgoers. The best playgoer is he whose enjoyment is greatest. To give pleasure is...

lent valuable management, and whose young support to the efforts the playgoers of the time watched with kindly and sympathetic interest. Shakespearean...

potent in influence. Familiar enough with foreign art was a section of playgoers. Memories of Rachel, of Bouffe, of Lafont, of Ravel, and of Ristori still...

ELIZABETH HERRICK. F. Peters. MATTHEWS, BRANDER. McDOUGALL, WILLIAM. New Playgoers Why Do We Laugh? Old Plays and 475 359 CONTENTS vi PAQE MEMORIES...

to do away with it entirely in 1762, they made heavily. But playgoers, and there were frequent bickerings between the it a great outcry,...

entertainment that seems exactly to hit the taste of the majority of playgoers is “ musical farce ” of the Shop Girl, Artist's Model, and Gentleman Joe...

of Massaroni. It is all There was some disposition, among critical playgoers at that time, to THE THEATRE. 6 complain of“ Toujours Brigand A [Jan...

An offer from Chas. Morton The late Bessie Bellwood debut in to the " Playgoers' " Out the London — music-halls— " The — My —A short Coster's Serenade...

performance of a story by actors for the pleasure of an audience. Not all playgoers, however, know a good play from an inferior one. If the reading of The...

seats at their benefits and when Garrick resolved 1762, they heavily. playgoers, made to do away with it entirely in a great outcry, thinking they...

fepgrfrmf A Magazine of P/ays> Players —and a Program Sjeitrg , Playgoers IJiagera ®f)f (Eopleg S^ralrr 3|enrp 3Tciuett diapers (Arranged Alphabetically)...

Jane Coombs, we believe,) and yet the bills were out "for Saturday the playgoers of Louisville were promised " Komeo and Juliet." "All the rest are...

what is bad, of what is right and what is wrong the recognition by the playgoers, that is, as well as by the workers on the other side of the footlights...

has actually paid to advertise it, an eloquent half column of advice to playgoers on no account to visit his theatre It will here be objected that he has...

October, 1908 Tht Plimfton Press Norwood Mass. U.S.A. TO FELLOW PLAYGOERS WITH you mind in I have written this we have in Whether we know...

stage V cheered the grand old veteran, which must have shown him how loth playgoers would be to lose his valuable services. as Grandfather Whitehead, called...

When I was a lad I liked to hear playgoers discuss the favourites of their time. But nowadays the young playgoer is firmly convinced and persuaded 64...

by a vitalised English ; be attached to the welcome formation of Playgoers' Societies and Stockport, or to the outbreak of a Actors and actresses...

ANTHONY TROLLOPE. vi eager public The public. ; there must be a with playgoers critical pit, filled were familiar with fine acting judgments, has...

many whose pieces, although they may have pleased the vast majority of playgoers when they were performed in the theater, are now none the less quite unworthy...

and no longer an sharp in the recollecThis swift tion of all living playgoers. removal to the limbo of the vanisht is alert personality however popular...

Burke, at the York, and on tour 1912-3. The Widow of Wasdale Head Playgoers (1913). New (1912). Lyceum ARTHUR PINERO 8 (Three or four adaptations...

Pace SECTION I.— Inception and Growth of Religious Drama Players and Playgoers excommunicated Monastic Writings Mimes Religious in Dramatic Element...

P Sepcrtorg A Ma^a^hie of Plays Players, Playgoers and a Programme — How So far that ^ little candle throws his beams! shines a good deed in...

what is bad, of what is right and what is wrong the recognition by the playgoers, that is, as well as by the workers on — the other side of the footlights...

and resented equally by the play- THOMAS DEtCKER. xiv and wright playgoers the " Whither," proceeds the " Whither in pit gallery. or Horn...

Farsa— England CHAPTER !46 VIII. THEATRES, PLAYWRIGHTS, ACTORS, AND PLAYGOERS. Servants of the Nobility and Mary— Statutes become Players— Statutes...

address to the Liverpool Playgoers' Society on the eve of Hauptmann's fiftieth birthday, and was repeated to the Leeds Playgoers on March 6, 1913. K. H...

meaning is to Stead and Mr. F. K be attached to the welcome formation of Playgoers' Societies in Manchester, Leeds, and Stockport, or to the outbreak of...

setting (the ; And more experience. the typical fare offered to playgoers :—creased trousers and frock coats at the St. James's; stage carpenter...

Ilaymarket never concluded its last piece much earlier; and enthusiastic playgoers would sometimes, after leaving the opera towards midnight, go over the...

Beaux’ Stratagem and Goldsmith’s famous inn-comedy for comparison. But the playgoers of that day were ‘undoubtedly right in resenting the Cis who talked like...

last year, when this play was originally produced in New York City, the playgoers of the metropolis responded to its appeals, began laughing and have not...

Violante was in the habit of providing entertainment to those of the Dublin playgoers for in whom the two established theatres Aungier Street and Smock Alley...

multitudes of contemporary playgoers who were almost heedless of him before, one of the leaders in his profession. Old playgoers, however, were not astonished...

present moment, almost a generation after his influential memory of playgoers of his The biographies of other American death, lives only in the own...

— — ' — — . CHAPTER VIII THEATRES, PLAYWRIGHTS, ACTORS, AND PLAYGOERS I. Servants of the Nobility become Players— Statutes of Edward VI. and...

of stage literature. "How often," remarks Mr. William Archer, "have playgoers of the younger generation been surprised to learn that such and such a...

PREFATORY NOTE ONE of these papers was read to the chester Club, Playgoers' printed in the " English the stuff they are made chester Guardian...

theatres the ing's of their patrons a diversity attractions for which playgoers have neither time nor inclination now, when few London theatres ring up...

performance have them. We salute as they pass always membered by the old playgoers as Musical Two Buzzards. the high soprano and effulgent bass many Director...

PEEFACE. It has often been asserted that the mere glamour of youth induces playgoers to prefer their early favourites the to though the latter who succeed...

mere glamonr It has often been asserted that the of youth induces playgoers to prefer their early favourites the to though the latter superior...

the suddenly bethought him of his youthful visitor of previous had Playgoers year. morbid hankering after young the precocious histrionic Roscii...

with New " Billie Girl (1912). Burke, at of Wasdale Head (1912). Playgoers (1913). The Widow the York, and on tour 1912-3. Lyceum " ARTHUR...

Theatre Guild began its season’s work. This proved a venture in which the playgoers’ interest builded consistently through the season. Walter Hampden began...

performance of a story by actors for the pleasure of an audience. Not all playgoers, however, know a good play from an inferior one. If the reading of The...

of acidulated drops, which belonged as much to the order of Christmas playgoers as the oysters and stout that invariably terminated the revels. Yes, this...

the Motion Picture Board •Vccording: spirit and the familiar to playgoers as the at It Is true that I am a feminine per¬ a any censorship....

the most conspicuous vantage-ground, a lofty stage promised to rural playgoers the " Grand Melodramatic Performance of The Remorseless Baron and the...

good thoughts ; that the essence of pure poetry is religion and that playgoers are not altogether worse than churchgoers ? For an instant The minister...

place that there was a Censor." The large majority of playgoers probably has large majority of playgoers were never realised that authors who write for...

resented equally by the play- THOMAS DEKKER. xiv and wright " the playgoers " Whither in or gallery. therefore the gatherers of the public, or...

and resented equally by the play- THOMAS DEKKER. xiv and the playgoers in pit Whither," proceeds the Horn Book, wright " " Whither gallery...

a peculiar fascina¬ tion for him, for both his parents were constant playgoers, and every sou he himself could economise out of his scanty allowance...

Haymarket never concluded its last piece much earlier; and enthusiastic playgoers would sometimes, after leaving the opera towards midnight, go over the...

vituperative in the capacity as critics were the most enrap- tured as playgoers. For a gift like Ibsen's enlivens these jaded folk more than they are...

familiar with fine acting judgments, has disappeared. is who with playgoers and had trained In place its there a mass of amusement-seekers,...

Violante was in the habit of providing entertainment to those of the Dublin playgoers for in whom Aungier Street afford the two established theatres and...

(1912). Performed, Theater, The Widow with New Billie of Wasdale Playgoers (1913). Burke, at the York, and on tour 1912-3. Head (1912). Lyceum...

and occasionally have interested, charmed, an intelligent minority of playgoers, xviii INTRODUCTION who have grown weary of the rank insipidity, vulimprobabihty...

Country "Wife," and Garrick altered the title Dorothea Jordan \ 5 Playgoers of the present day are not in a position to understand the effect produced...

pit, filled artists must be not and an eager public; only with playgoers public. who were The familiar with fine acting and had trained judgments...

Holy Writ, as menace to public morality. Against plays, players, and playgoers they waged in pulpit and pamphlet a warfare characterized by the most...

The one force at work in we have termed the commercial of potential playgoers. the theatre, which doing force, is The back. little whose impulse...

Irving as Iachimo, And Lyceum of how many of late years does the playgoer remember anything more than the performance of one character, or two True...

, new play by ... . 284 Players, recent detraction of . . . .63, 184 Playgoers, unpunctual.245, 357 Playgoing, the price of.155 Plays and Novels.68 Plays...

PEBFACE. It has often been asserted that the mere glamour of youth induces playgoers to prefer their early favourites the to though the latter superior...

Australia, appearances at Drury Lane and other theatres. after several Playgoers of the present day are not unfamiliar with the admirable representations...

experience and comparison, not upon personal prejudice or predilection. Playgoers of an older generation, who remember PREFACE Macready, Forrest, the...

revival by Mr. Courtneidge, and the consequence was, that thousands of playgoers from parts of the country crowded the little, all historic Prince's...

1242 IJbcrty, The ‘ Pall Mall ’ on, 1197 ^ Liccnnng, 37.3, 400 Act and Playgoers, The, 1190 Bill, The, 685, 750 Question, The, 36, 60 Lies, The Usefulness...

costly Scenery and Costumes only theatric Snares and Delusions, then playgoers will find more to attract them and busi- ness will improve. In short...

and is evidently be may and not playgoers a ; divided and the also far defect, into first more playgoers are far more illustrious. and...

multitudes of contemporary playgoers who were almost heedless of him before, as one of the leaders in his profession. Old playgoers, however, were not aston-...

at the York, and on tour 1912-3. The Widow of Wasdale Head (1912). Playgoers (1913). Lyceum " ARTHUR PINERO 8 (Three or four adaptations and...

multitudes of contemporary playgoers who were almost heedless of him before, one of the leaders in his profession. Old playgoers, however, were not astonished...

There was no professional criticism in those days; which means that playgoers were not accustomed to attempt any clear analysis of the effect produced...

Violante was in the habit of providing entertainment to those of the Dublin playgoers for in whom the two established theatres Aungier Street and Smock Alley...

far away from the taste and habits of thought of the general body of playgoers, finds the theatre empty, his manager impoverished, and his own reputation...

drama will always remain a popular art who away from the taste body of playgoers, finds the theatre empty, his manager impoverished, and his own reputation...

There was no professional criticism in those days; which means that playgoers were not accustomed to attempt any clear analysis of the effect produced...

Shakespeare, burlesque, opera bouffe, each had failed to restore the Playgoers had The rent was high everybody said cessful its got out of London...

Trag- edy, Frederick B. E. Hellems . .'. . 809 Playwright and the Playgoers, The, Brand er Matthews 421 Plea for the Adult Minor, A, Eenton Foster...

iikll Office of'VHV. Ii.i.lsi KA rKi) .A.mkrican. to "I have that playgoers wish to have thought the minority had a right authority of the many...

been only known at the Opera and it was the triumph of the true British playgoer. the man who had seen Jack Bannister, sir. and Munden and Dowton, and all...

Lawrence Toole, was the original Pitcher. singing ditty, E. of Elderly playgoers still recall Toole's L. Blanchard's mock-sentimental A Norrible Tale...

attempt would be made by the to land on English soil. Already the startled playgoers could hear in their excited imagination the clash of arms mingling with...

that period — wanted something piquant. matter in modern terms The playgoers of One may suppose fact of success. nearly as as thing. IV THE SECOND...

the play, 450. Date of the Avare and its failure as a new play, 451. Playgoers then liked ; serious comedies to be in verse, 451. Main ideas shown in...

theatre-goer has seen the play many half a dozen of times. It is true many playgoers can witness a work of this author, even only respectably performed so...

with portraits of the principal performers, whereas the ancient Roman playgoers had to be thankful for small mercies, and glean their in¬ formation from...

whether the majority of playgoers were aware until enquiry took ])lace that there was a Censor." large majority of playgoers probably has never realised...

securely become wrapped in the wet dish-cloth of the playgoer. Thus, it may be true to say that the playgoer gets the plays he deserves. The music-hall-goer...

on their which Shakespeare saw or turn, with books com- desire of Playgoers to Hierarchy of the Blessed in his / • 1 has a series or i*...

52. Does Shakespeare sympathize with Shylock? Does Shakespeare expect playgoers to sympathize with Shylock? 53. Why does Shylock synagogue ? (line...

are actors of a past generation, but they live in the memories of many playgoers. The thought will no doubt occur to many that the great Burton might...

simple, pungent style took the multi- tude of intelligent readers and playgoers by storm. The officials of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer induced him to go...

which never fails to strike the fancy of all sorts and conditions of playgoers, and it appears to be destined to go round the world. Further novelty...

Winter. fine robust appearance, and revives in the memories of old playgoers Edwin the best characteristics of with and discernment. taste artistic...

Addisoni, After delighting Europe with her voice, and re eral resort. Playgoers were, lhowvever, at this time deprived of one of thleir stars. Mrs...

THEATRE handclaps, or the chilly silence that can indeed be felt. Your playgoers of 1720, and many years that followed it, took their pleasure with greater...

have interested, and occasionally charmed, an intelligent minority of playgoers, xviii INTRODUCTION who have grown weary of the rank insipidity, vul...

Prince of India than by a splendid cast. Tlie weird, supernatural Chicago playgoers have before seen in ten Wandering Jew Is portrayed by J. E. Dodson. years...

a peculiarly delicate one. are conscious that the majority of modern playgoers would sooner be told in a rough-and-ready way whether the play was good...

Addisoni, After delighting Europe with her voice, and re eral resort. Playgoers were, lhowvever, at this time deprived of one of thleir stars. Mrs...

experience and comparison, not upon personal prejudice or predilection. Playgoers of an older generation, who remember PREFACE Macready, Forrest, the...

professional reached a supremacy, in his own peculiar line, which old playgoers assert to have never since been equalled, or even approached. The other...

challenges our attention because it awoke the enthusiasm of thousands of playgoers and absorbed much of the energy of the leading poet of the But the achievement...

perhaps lie given Its initial pnaluction in Chfeago or Los Angeles. The Playgoers* Club, of Chicago, annoanced a piny writing contest. The club will act...

excellent portrayal of bis new role. He Is quite a stranger to local playgoers as he has mtt been In this city for many years. He has for his supp<»t...

previously had turned down for that express purpose (as every experienced playgoer in the house plainly foresees) on the somewhat emaciated pretext that...

activities, and must ever consider the opinions and prejudices of the playgoers, he is under no undue strain when he does this. He, himself, is part and...

potent Familiar in influence. enough with foreign art was a section of playgoers. Memories of Rachel, of Bouffi6, of Lafont, of Ravel, and of Ristori still...

the summer and autumn season. — Bancroft, Marie Effie.— Passing old playgoers is number under her who charmed maiden name of Marie the lady dear...

separate all tastes, whereas in London theatres for separate sections of playgoers ; so that, for example. Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree can conduct His Majesty's...

by Playgoers London, Sept. Ifl (Si)coial Cable to The BlIIlx)ard).—"Our Betters", produced at the Globe Tiicatcr Wednesday, was besieged by playgoers all...

large to make this series possess a real educative influence upon the playgoers of America, and so also become eventually profitable to the publishers...

what they were not than by what they were. A NEW INSTITUTION Expert playgoers could not was coming it revealed. tell 7 from one scene what The...

statue scene was seen Mrs. Siddons in one of the points that was by playgoers. The play was brought great expense, and the actress contributed oftenest...

coupledVith perfect service. This has become the popular resort of the playgoers. Entrance 637 Washington St., or 17 Boylston St. Table d’hote dinner every...

his " I am the happiest man alive." old Nottingham manager Of critical playgoers who saw him play Romeo, I have known none admit that he had seen a better...

previously had turned down for that express purpose (as every experienced playgoer in the house plainly foresees) on the pretext that she prefers to sit...

remembrance. not yet come into its own because English playor American playgoers for that matter do goers not yet see that it is a form of dramatic art...

Have you read about the full ac- playgoer’s $1000 count of Base Ball games is 31 1908. 27, Playgoers The Boston Traveler Extra containing...

wishy-washy comedies " of Arthur Murphy, were taken from the French upon playgoers. Among all dramatists, and greater than any of them, appeared the author...

P Sepcrtarg 5[lje A ' Magazine of Plays^ Players, Playgoers and a Programme — How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed...

the possible. that period — wanted something piquant. matter The playgoers of One may suppose success. nearly as as thing. IV THE SECOND PERIOD...

to other interests and ; this is a public, The one of potential playgoers. the theatre, which doing force, is The back. we have termed little...

personal allurement, there would be found a plenty of critics and of playgoers to approve and applaud it. Nor would they be at loss for arguments to...

deals with certain notorious pro' The ductions which startled London playgoers. book being indexed is a useful work of reference. LONDON STANLEY PAUL...

orchestra is sometimes added to the auditorium. A trumpet flourish warned playgoers that the curtain THE STAGE was about to rise, 29 and between the...

the most conspicuous vantage-ground, a lofty stage promised to rural playgoers the " Grand Melodramatic Performance of The Eemorseless Baron and the...

personal allurement, there would be found a plenty of critics and of playgoers to approve and applaud it. Nor would they be commendation. " a would...

nor more sincerely beloved actor is He possesses by the great mass of playgoers. a fund of natural humour, and is the life and soul of any company which...

criticise their fellow plavers. At least, it seems to me that there are no playgoers who should be more discreet than the players themselves their seats, ...

we hardly have need of a hospital insofar (Continued on page 11) The Playgoers New Producing Company 10 Plays Chosen for Coming Sea¬ son and Two New...

Tlie playgoers in Pittsburg, Milwaukee. Omaha. San Francisco and way atlons are just ns careful of tlieir stations their oney .as the playgoers on Broadway...

pp. I-I2 II — — Gloucester in the 'Forties Queen Square, Bloomsbury Playgoer and Critic A Kiss from the Past pp. 13-25 — . CHAPTER My father and...

the ability to express the finer qualities of Sellers. Of course, the playgoers could see in the part only what Raymond had expressed with the keenest...

professional brethren, nor more sincerely beloved by the great mass of playgoers. He possesses a fund of natural humour, and is the life and soul of any...

of those attitudes of " noble ardour " which so enrap, tured the lady playgoers of the day while Miss Nossiter, a young actress of short but promising...

professional brethren, nor more sincerely beloved by the great mass of playgoers. He possesses character. actor is a fund of natural humour, and of...

has become But more scarcely appreciable by the new generation. mature playgoers will own to the almost magical power of such a reminder, which will call...

the bead-roll of the foremost actors of our time; but even the youngest playgoers have seen Booth, Mr. Jefferson, Mr. able, call Irving, Signor Salvini...

public; there must be a more enlightened critical pit, filled with playgoers familiar with fine acting is The who were and had trained judgment...

Worcester playgoers will not have oredentiaia with which to antagonize the New York booking offleea. If Jane fowl draws capacity houses, Worcester playgoers’ sincerity...

one of those attitudes of" noble ardour " which so enraptured the lady playgoers of the day while Miss Nossiter, a young actress of short but promising...

A From Jaiptir City, British With the house clelr. the police JURY OF PLAYGOERS Cost to.ope'rhte for the average home 3VjC .a week. Furniture movers employed...

each week. Havana Will Hear Ganuo This public represents only virgin playgoers attracted by the lure of coupon seats at on an average of about sixty-flve...

in which Irving played Captain Absolute. Forty years ago provincial playgoers did not have much opportunity of seeing great acting, except in the star...

them- The theatre became the appeal made by the serious mark the playgoers. Hardy's tragi-comedies transition to the appreciation of solid dramatic...

and the dingy smoke discolored stuoco building, so familiar to English playgoers, has no counterpart within the limits ofManhattan Island. An American...

! ®j)e Repertory A Magazine of Plays , Players , Playgoers — and a Programme “ How far that little candle throws his beams So shines a good deed...

rejection of it, an endeavour must be made to state it fully and clearly. Playgoers whose memory carries them back twenty years or so can recall a general...

what they were. much dramatic rather A NEW INSTITUTION 7 Expert playgoers could not tell from one scene what was coming next. The scenery suggested...

fairly won its success. It will be gratifying, therefore, to hosts of playgoers in Greater Boston to learn that “The Prince of Pilsen” is to return on...

activities, and must ever consider the opinions and prejudices of the playgoers, he is under no undue strain when he does this. He, himself, is part...

for years occupied the art of the theatre Theatre Libre attention of playgoers are now lost in the obscurity from which they should never have emerged...

to economize with regard to the expense of wax and 2 tallow. Although playgoers had to assemble considerably before the hour of commencing, so as to secure...

and the machine-made effects Most of the names which had attention of playgoers are of the popular drama. for years occupied the now lost in the...

very low levef represented by the average taste of the huge crowd of playgoers requisite munerative run therefore, This had how is published the...

potent in influence. Familiar enough with foreign art was a section of playgoers. Memories of Rachel, of Bouffd, of Lafont, of Ravel, and of Ristori still...

the names which had for years occupied the marked, in attention of playgoers are now lost in the obscurity from which they should never have emerged...

KEELEY SCRAP-BOOK KEELEY PIECES AND AUDIENCES - RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD PLAYGOERS ALBERT SMITH IN - - THE JUBILEE YEAR 86 - 66 224 - WILD MEG AND...

people and fortunes for others, which was to of tweak and tantalize playgoers all over America, England, France, Spain, and South Africa, and which...

in the 'Forties 11 — Queen Square, Bloomsbury—A Kiss from the Past Playgoer and Critic The Gloucester that remember I scarcely is recognisable...

liberalise the Conservatives was scarcely a more educate the English playgoer of the eighties to Shakespeare. devotion to the hazardous enterprise...

occasioned by the dramatic form and by the established tradition among playgoers, we may look to th e words and actions of the ghost asjyur sole in- let's...

it does not always result in breeding playwrights and players, breeds playgoers; and it is through an ardor for play going, which has become one of oiu:...

of the unsophisticated people, the unregenerate THE AWAKENED PUPPET playgoers, the me modern groundlings — 29 stirred in a dangerous something...

PREFACE lx At the moment when these lines are written, the London playgoer, not perhaps of the most fashion¬ able class, receives with delight a scene...

TO THE SHUBERT THEATRE Luxurious Appointments Prices MID-DAY LUNCH, PLAYGOERS’ DINNER, 65 cents 5 to 8, $1.50 Dancing Cabaret Moderate Saturdays...

some people and fortunes for others, which was to tweak and tantalize playgoers all over America, England, France, Spain, and South Africa, and began...

occasioned by the dramatic form and by the established tradition among playgoers, we may look to th e words and actions of the ghost asjyur sole in- ...

coupled with perfect — service. This has become the popular resort of the playgoers. Entrance 637 Washington St., or 17 Boylston St. Table d’hote dinner every...

it does not always result in breeding playwrights and players, breeds playgoers; and it is through an ardor for play going, which has become one of our...

the most conspicuous vantage-ground, a lofty stage promised " to rural playgoers the Grand Melodramatic Performance of The Remorseless Baron and the Bandit's...

ignorant | in altruistic efforts to entertain his o ‘tured: ego and _playgoers. at the same The level of public taste has been o - just as often asithas...

Dowton, and all had to that time they it triumph of the true British playgoer, who had stalls sir, was the —the and Mimden those true performers...

it does not always restdt in breeding playwrights and players, breeds playgoers; and it is through an ardor for playgoing, which has become one of ovir...

no great account in the public estimation the great majority of the playgoers had no use for actors save on the stage, and did not seek to disguise...

the " The Little MinIndeed, contemporary drama. is not, is known to playgoers, is a very sorry with the book, compared with production compared the...

were taken from the French " Among all alike beginning to pall upon playgoers. these dramatists, and greater than any of them, appeared the author of...

left, and c on the right. Put your compass, Vitruvius says, at c (on the playgoer's right), measure off the radius toward his left, and then describe the...

0[ljE A ' SepErtnrvj Magazine of Plays^ Players, Playgoers and a Programme — How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed...

2502 2503 By Is, . ByG«orge . . . . . ANN. By Lechmere Worrall PLAYGOERS. By Arthur W. Pinero NOCTURNE. By Anthony Wharton SIMON STREET. By Anthony...

1,No.4 CONTENTS Cover-Norma Talmadge CONTENTS , LITTLE HINTS TO THE PLAYGOERS EDITORIAL ON THE HONEYMOON TRAIL-STORY , . . .. ;........... George...

the play being by Francis Edward Faragoh. whose name is as yet new to playgoers. "THE WOODEN KIMONO" is a great mystery play — personally, we are not...

of endea- vouring to win over and conciliate that large body English playgoers who take their opinions and morals ready-made from you, the august and...

and Lee : {S.) Dictioruiry — — 2965 Playgfoer—Plea. Playgoer, The London Playgoer, from 1851 to 1866, by Henry Morley 8vo. Lond. 1891 Playing...

Rhubarb " comes, can Spring be far behind ? THE PLAINT OF A PLAYGOER THE PLAINT OF A PLAYGOER I DO not sing of music-halls That draw admirers of the...

performance have them. We salute as they pass always membered by the old playgoers as Musical Two Buzzards. the high soprano and effulgent bass many Director...

of a London playgoer from 1851 to 1866   (  ) Author Morley, Henry, 1822-1894. [from old catalog] Title The journal of a London playgoer from 1851 to...

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themselves felt and would have been welcome to large numbers of the playgoers of the time, that excellent sport might have feared, which was peculiar...

theatre was giving unbounded delight to a vast throng of fashionable playgoers " reproached and ridiculed him. It was asserted that every idea that Wilde...

how the play was conceived by the author and interpreted by publishers, playgoers, and readers in Shakespeare’s day. To interpret the talk of Pandarus and...

brilliant declamation, and the fine dresses of the actors, that charmed the playgoers. Stubbs for all his bitterness, was not very wide of the mark when he...

April 9. The visits Mr. Drew are always very welcome •vents to local playgoers and his pfesent engagement assumes added importance since he is to be...

really certainly plead low esteem the in- telligence of the British playgoer. I have spoken my mind on what freely I Artist or show* man . ...

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curiosity about it. The newspapers that at all influence the judgment of playgoers spoke warmlv of the Hiss Lincoln, the playwright, had piece. her little...

the stage of this country in years. It seems a certainty that plav and playgoers will find their stay here very successful. CHECKER TAXI CO. HOLLIS...

really certainly plead low esteem the in- telligence of the British playgoer. I have spoken my mind because I suspect him s most unpardoncommit...

coupled with perfect — service. This has become the popular resort of the playgoers. Entrance 637 Washington St., or 17 Boylston St. Table d’hote dinner every...

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reason why even the student of Shakespeare, and, least of all, the modern playgoer, should wish to see it in actual stage presentation. It gives little opportunity...

Indeed, if we take the plays of Fletcher as criteria of the of the playgoer of 1625 we demands find that Shakespearian tragedy and comedy do not...

XXX INTRODUCTION All this attempt at dressing the part and helping the playgoer by accurate and beautiful scenery was wholly neglected in Shakespeare's...

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XXX INTRODUCTION All this attempt at dressing the part and helping the playgoer by accurate and beautiful scenery was wholly neglected in Shakespeare's...

while the "London Njght" appear in POETRY. periodicals NEW MANCHESTER PLAYGOER To the is about editors my acknowledgments ; to of these are due...

to be the first to tender him solid money, but now, of course, English playgoers would throw as much cash He can look back in his lap as any man could...

Indeed, if we take the plays of Fletcher as criteria of the demands of the playgoer of 1625 we find that Shakespearian tragedy and comedy do not meet those...

Alexander Woollcott WHEN war was declared on April 1917, any hardened playgoer could have foretold exactly the consequences in the theatre. In addition...

America teeming with a vast horde of is infi- nitely ambitious playgoers, no longer merely con- tent with seeing and enjoying plays, but intent...

wonderfulness to old themes which in other hands would be dull. " For the Paris playgoer a whole range of femininity goes dim at her death, as a kind of film formed...

exhibited was large enough to Several days in sucsatisfy the most enthusiastic playgoer. cession were devoted entirely to the drama, and on each day B DRAMATIC...

ferent within a few days of attendance at the rial Theatre. The Festival playgoer Memois thus afforded an opportunity for studies in comparative criticism...

and : you consider them and answer as you would. When all of the playgoers of similar questions to themselves America shall have put and answered...

Original Company First 29 The Dramatic Triumph Acclaimed by Boston Playgoers in the Comedy The Man From Home By Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon...

awaiting the result of what was happened filled the gallery the pit; playgoers thronged trial of strength. Dramatists zenith. its and managers,...

Puritan antagonism by Mr Archer the Puritan demanded atonement playgoer from the playgoer, and the atonement that the Scotch I think that it ; demanded...

America teeming with a vast horde of is infi- nitely ambitious playgoers, no longer merely con- tent with seeing and enjoying plays, but intent...

within a few days of attendance at the Memorial Theatre. The Festival playgoer thus afforded an opportunity for studies in comparative criticism which...

exact in the the is main; Daily Telegraph my I, "being an experienced playgoer," might " have been given a free hand not to adapt, but to curtail. No...

tragic the to effort this muse of re- Greece. But the English playgoers were wont to sleep at this tive of Not that stately solemn narra-...

half-hour which convention allows to the preacher, In speaking of plays and playgoers, when every THE moment abstracted DRAMA. from the 87 lessons...

matinees. This is the greatest musical comedy combination the American playgoers ever enjoyed. That it found immediate and enormous appreciation in this...

townsman, the author of ever think of as our home* somewhat older playgoer than I, If mistake not, you have seen Charles Kean, and are a EPISTLE...

But in studying this play with more thoroughness than the average playgoer can be expected to do, we must simple facts well ism. There known ...

him more applause and praise then his two brothers, better known to the playgoers of the Northern States. intimate diaries). ance, his fire and superb...

None that the influence of the wider than is a vast increase of playgoers the stage is, it is Their work judged on its merits. there a want...

projections put in for building effect and the perpetual annoyance of humble playgoers, as a sacrifice to the spirit of Vitruvius, and to justify tectural He...

he is amusing, irresponsible intelligent still little fellow, playgoers more than an a phrase maker and iconoclast of conventions, whose forte...

seventeenth century to the present time. The verdict of the world of playgoers, that some of the plays when well acted were far better worth seeing...

attemptedby teristic. The next picture to it .isNo. 176, the American playgoer as the author of one who is really capable of handling a Fort Lee, N. J...

the popular A. Cooper, the veteran tragedian. cess pieces known to playgoers, his national feeling awak- ened in him a desire to produce something...

and elocution were ; and as these are red rags to a certain class of playgoers, the " occasion to blaspheme" was not wasted upon the enemy. in the way...

the room formerly used by silent-screen star, Tom* Mix. . Libra ry. Playgoers will be Interested to hear that Bernice Nllson, languid and languishing...

wonderfulness to old themes which in other hands would be dull. " For the Paris playgoer a whole range of 'femininity' goes dim at her death, as a kind of film...

his fellow-actors, and his s^reat talents had made him popular with playgoers. In these circumstances, Mr. Murray, the lessee, with his usual generosity...

stat-e of circumstances by markets and other places in early morning. Playgoers no means rests wholly with Mr 'Bruce. Indeed, that j and others are not...

that commentator thinks about it. At the same time he must remember that playgoers of Shakespeare's day probably comprehended the drama perfectly, for they...

Prescott was very thrown upon early estimation who past generation of playgoers, but writer, The son mine. very old friend of its shelter in the...

for new pieces. It is certain that not one of these gave London playgoers the opportunity of judging Racine upon his merits as a dramatist. We may...

analyze them from the standpoint of literature alone. The vast majority of playgoers in the theater, are success achieved by these pieces on the stage itself...

attire, in the scarlet gown and hat of a cardinal famiharised to London playgoers of late by Sir H. Beerbohm Tree's impersonation of Wolsey had he been...

the piece might ' possibly recall to the memory of some elderly playgoers a delightful comedy by Mr. Douglas Jerrold, entitled 'The Schoolfellow...

provide an inexhaustible fund of laughter to more than three generations of playgoers, and still 10 bids fair to retain the character generally given to...

That other people suffer without suffering ourselves. M. Faguet's way playgoer. of putting Indeed, I be. unconsciously But as we are no longer ...

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burlesque. The worse. theatre those ; better Matters grow worse and of playgoers class attractions of coarser grain who desert must be found The...

with unparalleled stage we have the testimony of seventeenth century playgoers and of some few amateurs who have undertaken the play in recent years...

volumes, which had successfully eluded the greasy fingers of generations of playgoers, the of disgusted Puritans, and the ignorance of our own people. Never...

talents of Bertha Kalich, who has since achieved a reputation English playgoers. production of "Two It among was on the occasion of the Sisters,"...

Robertson memory freshly to the notices will bring back of many playgoers the excitement, and the enthusiasm of interest, the " some memorable...

attemptedby teristic. The next picture to it .isNo. 176, the American playgoer as the author of one who is really capable of handling a Fort Lee, N. J...

137 . You may now subscribe for the four plays at the office of the Playgoers’ League in the lobby of the. main arena of the Municipal Auditorium;,...

matinees. This is the greatest musical comedy combination the American playgoers ever enjoyed. That it found immediate and enormous appreciation in this...

Author, the chief part of their business to organize the whole mass of playgoers into a fessor and vital and functioning audience. Brander Matthews...

hearing one's — Magazine Dinners— 'The 278-308 Dramatic Students '-The Playgoers' Club the Stage CONTENTS X CHAPTER VII. LETTERS. PAGE — Mr. Churton...

volumes, which had successfully eluded the greasy fingers of generations of playgoers, the fires of disgusted Puritans, and the ignorance of our own people...

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tli€ particulars of the "greate and daungerous ryott" that disturbed the playgoers at the Fortune theatre in May, 2 Charles in the Red Bull and of the...

hearing from old to do with the slave system in my early days playgoers great of a I tragedian, face an of indignant Liverpool which...

this while the much superior old model was still in the remembrance of playgoers. This seems to me incredible. It must not, however, be overlooked that...

Anthony Munday in Antonio Balladino,' and the general satire upon London playgoers, anticipate those asperities of criticism which embittered chanical personal...

actors who have passed beyond the recollection of even the oldest playgoers, seems all but hopeless. With the most diligent examination of contemporary...

decorations, and the which had delighted the eyes of Athenian music, playgoers none the less because their intellect was keen tical engine, there the...

laugh He was writing away, for a small audience, mostly of inveterate playgoers ; THE WRITER ZIMRI 9 an audience saturated with this spirit and...

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will be in opera- tion. And then the question as to whether photo-playgoers can be en- with the adjustment of admission prices to a scale almost...

feeling put out. The awkward pause which relieved to by one of the playgoers who wanted know whether Sure it more ball required " followed was...

answering si A human some things in of life surely thereby the playgoers in the penny gallery who howl at the representative when he comes...

appertaining to it often extends to the playbills, which for ardent playgoers possess a sort of sacredness, as reminiscent of hours of enjoyment never...

America teeming with a vast horde of is infi- nitely ambitious playgoers, no longer merely con- tent with seeing and enjoying plays, but intent...

before it is GALLERIES, you consider as you would. When all of the playgoers of similar questions to themselves America shall have put and answered...

names now, but the memory of them brings smiles and tears to the old playgoer's face ; what have we youngsters to look forward to ? In conclusion, I have...

Elixir when Mrs. Jordan firmly fixed in the good graces of London playgoers, was issued a small volume entitled Jlr of Life and Cure for the ...

directors to achieve fame in the film studio The photoplay creating new playgoers for the speaking stage No serious effort yet in evidence to entice the...

had not an absolutely free hand in He his work. had to supply the playgoers with a version of a character with which they were familiar in a ...

one cannot study the players, the playwrights, the managers, and the playgoers of old without a growing conviction that the web of theatrical life is...

crane necks for staff let a sight of their fugleman; a few serious playgoers called to have him pitched out; but the mass of him with shouts of encourage"...

sure of efficient support. Relatively to the population and number of playgoers the recognized stars of the theatrical firmament were in number far...

of the Major; and John Mason, who proved a capital Secretary. Boston playgoers will always remember with pleasure the Colonel who for so many his...

volumes, which had successfully eluded the greasy fingers of generations of playgoers, the of disgusted Puritans, and the ignorance of our own people. Never...

flirted I Mr. Fechter. his mise- The piece, as interesting to playgoers in And — made it that Ophelia must have been felt his certainly...

psychological research, it is not improbable that the ultimate tribunal of playgoers will insphere him higher than either Hauptmann or Wedekind. As long as...

/ACd^fen Lincoln Found Peace By In KARLKRUG Abe Lincoln— Lonely Playgoer: When an in" ego-crazed actor John Wilkes Booth, stuck a pistoled hand...

Criticism of the Crowd — John Gilbert's Opinion — Actor and Audience — EngUsh Playgoers and Londoners — Laughter and Applause — An thusiasm Artistic tlie Triumph...

have come posters. have no doubt proved alluring) when provincial playgoers were merely anxious and content to see simply staged but carefully rendered...

decorations, and the which had delighted the eyes of Athenian music, playgoers none the less because their intellect was keen in a former — — enough...

than half a century, and in both capacities provided two generations of playgoers with innocent amusement. Those who have enjoyed his fun upon the stage...

transcribe; for assuredly it was fitted to rejoice the hearts of the playgoers of a maritime nation ; : " under his assumed name, and becomes The...

stage directors to achieve fame in the film studio the for new speaking playgoers photoplay creating No serious effort yet in evidence to entice the ...

Dryden, as he afterward confessed, stooped to cater to the prurient playgoers. His so well adapted to the in his in drama as it may recasting...

the house. cessary justice, excited the most violent anin)osity in the playgoers of Loudon, and gave occasion to the celebrated O. P. riots, in whicii...

125 127 HEADPIECE. HEADPIECE. HEADPIECE. 128 DESIGN FOR MENU OF PLAYGOERS' CLUB. 129 THE SNARE OF VINTAGE. From backs of " Keynotes " Series...

his conjurer forth in the light of a spirit" ualist and to permit the playgoers thus much of an explanation for the trick man's behavior. The writer...

generations. But the estimate of the plays by professional of the world of playgoers, that writers, as reflected in literary criticism, has varied, or rather...

manager can afford. It would be interesting to ascertain how many English playgoers have encouraged this method of producing Shakespeare since Sir Squire...

ADDRESSED TO E. E. H. November Sir, —During 2, 1877. the last few weeks, playgoers in certain of our leading towns have been made aware of the existence...

glad to be Much personal through business known many who as old playgoers. herein contained rests knowledge first find favor with the of the...

in the colonies, and in days I my early remember hearing from old playgoers of declaration flung face of an by a Cooke, the great tragedian, in...

operated was so thorough and so novel to the playwrights as well as the playgoers of his time, that sition. he met with some determined oppo- Thomas Nash...

names now, but the memory of them brings smiles and tears to the old playgoer's face what have we youngsters to look forward to ? In conclusion, I have...

shall can afford. would be interesting to ascertain how many English playgoers have encouraged this method It of producing Shakespeare since Sir Squire...

Criticism of the Crowd — John Gilbert's Opinion — Actor and Audience — Enghsh Playgoers and Londoners — Laughter and Applause — An —A First-night Audience ...

vocabulary, the laws, the usages, the costumes which were familiar to the playgoers that flocked to applaud his pieces. Archeology was unknown to him and...

the particulars of the "greate and daungerous ryott" that disturbed the playgoers at the 2 Charles I., and of the disorder that reigned Fortune theatre...

Cooke. William Cooke was a well-known amateur of the drama, as the old playgoers were called, a lover of the stage, a He was born at frequenter of the...

be clustered round, Hke the entrance to a hive of bees, by a crowd of playgoers determined to get places; and I had to obtain extra make me one among...

sermons." The Puritans looked askance not only at plays, playwrights, and playgoers, but at the more homely and dances, and the them forbade even the most...

sacrifices was the revelation was it acting before, and The I ! it playgoers with had to we be made hard, few of his performances. to enable...

even when trained by the best work of Shakespeare himself, Elizabethan playgoers rose as a group to the interest of our audiences in characterization....

allusions that a drama bearing the same name had been familiar to the London playgoers for at least a dozen years, and had been published, more than once, in...

decorations, and the which had delighted the eyes of Athenian music, playgoers none the less because their intellect was keen in a former enough to...

elaboration artistic its probably above the heads of the majority playgoers of paying but persons of is ; temperament sensitive by will this...

were, in general, sure of efficient support. they Rela- and number of playgoers of the theatrical firmament tively to the p6pulation the recognized...

stood before them, and cheer upon then noble and fearless women, playgoers cheer shook left them the image the of theatre the the they ...

hearing from old to do with the slave system in my early days playgoers of I tragedian, great face the in Cooke, the an of indignant...

beginning of the seventeenth century. Although for a short period Spanish playgoers were provided wiA more comforts than any other known theatre/flie honour...

years famous for the representation of spectacles, which delight the playgoers of New York ; though to Europeans they afibrd the somewhat dreary sight...

Comedy The Archduke as Stage — — — — — — — —Bismarck Napoleon and Playgoers — Ideas about Music 242 — —A CONTENTS 12 Chapter XVIII continued...

is iterated and is not: spun out in a way to convince the modern that playgoers wits, at any rate, are sharper now than in 1465. temporaries, 9 The...

Family” has Tom D. Cochrane, who has been adver¬ appeared opportunely when playgoers tising manager for several years past, are ready for a clean theme and...

Edin- Young visiting him.' In the early part of the year 1804, the playgoers of 5 ; CHARLES MAYNE YOUNG. I-] 1 the metropolis were thrown into...

rock. In the fall several situated estate on the Mediterranean shore the playgoers of thia city will have an dosen men were asleep In the burning of the...

Cooke. William Cooke was a well-known amateur of the drama, as the old playgoers were called, a lover of the stage, a frequenter of the pit, and a keen...

Evening Bum When the full extent of the insult to the intelligence of playgoers was realized, THE AUDIENCE SIMPLY ROARED with derision and left the theatre...

of them have been found to possess the power of pleasing the assembled playgoers. I have never been the happy author of what may be termed a "best seller"...

clustered round, like the entrance to a hive of bees, by a crowd of playgoers determined to get places; and I had to obtain extra leave for quitting...

method being for servants, or those temporarily retained by intending playgoers, to stand in line for places, and when the doors were opened, rush in...

his mere superficial feelings excited— which is not an idiosyncrasy of playgoers altogether to be over¬ looked—could be made to care a mental twopence...

of and London performers. There he remained, the idol of the York playgoers, until bad hours and the brandy-bottle put an end to his life at the early...

as Chorus in " The Golden Fleece." still ring in the ears of very old playgoers. The To " I'm quite in a flutter I scarcely can utter words to my tongue...

venience of ' ' ' Posted Proofs ' to ' ' Dramatic Students '—The Playgoers' Club - 278- 50S CONTENTS CHAPTER VII. LETTERS. PAGE — Cordial...

author of the 'Rivals.' Although written hastily ; — French" upon playgoers. and greater than any ing But to this day. tragedies and wishy-washy...

the play and of the dumb- show so like the murder. In point of fact, playgoers never are disturbed by it. And unless they are gimlet-eyed critics, they...

actually to bring about a kind of epidemic which Garrick fever.' Dublin playgoers christened the At Dublin Mrs. Woffington to her repertory most successful...

is on original lines has received the approval of generations of playgoers. ILortJ Bgran. Tn Byron's plays we have a tempts betraying a more or...

oF the players. Some of the stars are of greater importance to picture playgoers than the plays in which they appear and with a well known player it is...

actors who have passed beyond the recollection of even the oldest playgoers, seems all but hopeless. With the most diligent examination of contemporary...

of S'>" H^erset House, the theatre was the talking^stock of the tpwn playgoers were as important as politieians ; eoffee-hpiisea and the chocolate-rhouses...

conditions of men, including both the multitude of common readers and playgoers in the town, and the nar- rower multitude of nobles and sovereigns. More...

North without visiting him.' In the early part of the year 1804, the playgoers of the metropolis were thrown into considerable excitement by the appearance...

a new &quot;Truth.&quot; title, In time, the London mana London playgoers were outgrowing which had insisted on the adapting of gers found that...

system in the colonies, and in my early days I remember hearing from playgoers of a declaration great tragedian, in by Cooke, the of an indignant...

respective productions faded into insignificance. very soon split up The playgoers wildly from one theatre to the other. would attend one theatre pass...

entertainment at the fairly numerous performances of tax the energies of playgoers through the all kinds which week. The present sufferers may experience...

the quaint prettiness of the girls' masculine attire, captivated the playgoers of New York, and " The Amazons " became the talk of the town. Presented...

class of actors will not, of course, be available, and the existing playgoers are satisfied with their present attractions. Whether 'houses' can be...

the American capital out of a modified hop. Edward Askew Sothern 22 playgoers were almost wearying of waiting for this most original of stage creations...

endeavoured to revive, in the Atlantic States, memory and lustre of The playgoers the at Boston. able for refinement of ment, and Booth assured ...

doubtedly, an object of infinite is, curiosity to unthe general body of playgoers who, having known him for many years under a plurality of physical and...

plays to match And that innocent in the ways of the whence that surprised playgoer crawled theatre actually directed the rehearsals, without further parley...

America teeming with a vast horde of is infi- nitely ambitious playgoers, no longer merely con- tent with seeing and enjoying plays, but intent...

for or who object to the drama. goers naturally flock to the Abbey playgoers flock to the theatre; but Zealous church- or the Hall, as zealous the...

theatres present most of the metropolitan successes during the season, and playgoers find ample to entertain. Among — theatrical jseople this city — is...