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They had played Raff's "Lenore" Symphony among other things.Evening, 8:00.

As they said in the play I used to go and hear when I was a young fellow there in New York—'let these

Siddons' book about actors, plays?

Hackett did not play it often.

I have seen him many times—liked him best in the plays he plays least, or now not at all—did play in

Scovel once told me of an old play she had heard of or seen—a play in which much hangs upon the saying

It has its part to play in the drama.

And there was the other Barrett, too—the play from Boker—'Francesca Da Rimini' he calls it—I mainly held

Then spoke tenderly of Peter Doyle. "I wonder where he is now? He must have got another lay.

He listened intently while Anna played a fine air (and played it finely) on the piano.

He rides less in his chair now to the river—more out in the open, where the boys play ball, the game

The little girl on his lap played with his big hand, his beard—finally, murmuring something, slid down

and played around the chair.

Described minutely 'The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish,' then: "A very good play was founded on this story many

In this position the light of the fire played in his beard and upon his face, with a revelation and an

Harry, I should say, was one of the greatest actors ever was—not tragic, but in such characters as Sir Peter

He played in 'London Assurance'—Oh! what is the character there?

touches then, wit—flashes of satire—delicate ironies, the vivid effects peculiar to the time, the play

, audience—which would not be what it was to the modern play-goers.

As the boy played with his beard, he said: "Never mind—he is only trying to discover what kind of a critter

Said some one had sent him "Willie Winter's pamphlet about the plays—the address delivered at the playhouse

for something to suggest an acknowledgment to these men, but that 'something' had never come into play

passage or more about Rachel—why it was she was so aroused when going to her room and reading aloud her plays

In shirt sleeves—looked fine—fanned himself from time to time—then would take out his knife—plays with

We discussed thereupon the part suggestiveness plays in art and literature anyway.

March" ode (Nineteenth Century) with the preface: "I have not your Swinburne ear" and this delightful play

mechanics, &c—I quoting the University professor, Young men—learn to do something well—even if it is only playing

I believe in unplugging the day—in inviting freedom—in having the boys play their ball, people go to

The whole subject, Beethoven, and the playing absolutely without note.

by and by the capital will go west—somwhere along the Mississippi—the Missouri: that is the natural play

Every pianist should learn to sing and play the violin; then their ears would hear more critically the

But the average pianist plays by sight only, and has no ears.

pretense of the Bacon Shakespeare fellows that they yet held a card—that there was still a card to be played—a

start with—and all because the writer wanted to be sharp—epigrammatic; for the sake of the epigram he played

Emersonianism leads straight to it, and it is dangerous, Horace—dangerous from the start—it is a playing

I interposed— "How O'Connor would play with Edward Emerson's 'or words to that effect' if he were here

W. responding laughingly— "Yes he would: it would be a sight to dwell upon: he would play Edward sick

Alluded to Castle with considerable affection—"he plays, I see—and who else, do you know?"

W. himself very philosophical over it, said, "This is not the first time I have been played with—I could

Lychenheim sent W. back by Ed a book of the play. Wednesday, August 7, 1889

suggested: "How would you like it for us to arrange to have him come over to see you in the fall, while he plays

There were lines in the play last night in which Salvini's magnificent voice and passion forced a close

Of the play itself he questioned me closely. "What was the Iago like?" and so on.

After him nobody can play that part." Mrs. Bowers had been in yesterday's cast.

While sitting there we heard the play of the whistling buoy down the river at one of the ship-yards at

He admitted "Francesca da Rimini" was "much of a play"—adding—"I knew Boker—met him: he had the look

theatre-going—'The Captain's not a-Miss'—not a bad pun, as puns go, on the word—seized from some point in the play

Hackett did not play it often.

modelledmodeled a good deal on the formal theatrical rules—he makes too much of the farcicality of the play—like

I have seen him many times—liked him best in the plays he plays least, or now not at all—did play in

Shakespeare had it—putting his enemies into verse—into a play, what-not.

It gives play of itself, naturally, without interpretation so-called, to grandest, most vital forces,

Generally, on weekdays, there are boys playing base ball—a fine air of activity, life, but yesterday

then—told Warrie, too—how much better it would be for the boys to be in the place—how much better the play

Siddons' book about actors, plays?

In it she speaks of Lady Macbeth—the Lady of the plays—insists that she was not what the world conceives

It makes me think of the fellow in the play: he says to some other—'I can invoke spirits from the deep

"Take this," he said, "to peter Montgomerie—perhaps it would interest him—or even you by the way."

cane—slowly going to the door—stood in the doorway, his back to us—his face turned—the light of the gas playing

He laughed when I mentioned Zola in connection with French "delicacy, finesse—an exquisite play"—his

Their company is now in the city—have 'A Possible Case'—a play of some sort, of which I know nothing.

He spoke of the Richard as "a favorite play" of his.

Were the Shakespeare plays the best acting plays? W. said: "That's a superstition—an exaggeration."

They played the devil with it over there.

O'Connor takes the view that there is something behind the Shakespeare plays—that the play's not the

while play has in it the vehemence of faith.

of sitting with his glasses stuck on the thumb of his left hand while he uses his right hand for playing

He spoke of the Richard as "a favorite play" of his.

"It is typical: the most likely, conclusive of the Shakespeare plays."

Then Shakespeare was to palm the plays off as his own? Was that the idea?

Harned said: "The Plays are so great won't they stand alone for all time?"

Were the Shakespeare plays the best acting plays? W. said: "That's a superstition—an exaggeration."

She found that he was a distant relative of Bill's—a friend: was playing her face right along: using

It is a complete narrative of Bacon's life and times, regularly underlying the text of the plays, and

servant, Henry Percy, acknowledges to Queen Elizabeth his own authorship of Richard Second and the other plays

sympathy with the Jack Cades or Wat Tylers, would have sent its author at once to the block, and the play

damn you all: what right have you, with your fripperies, poems, proses, to catch the public eye, to play

valuable, necessary, class of men than the men who are under all conditions, all shifts of weather, all play

I said: "You didn't need to play Emerson: he was on your side without it."

W. said in a fiery voice: "Who the hell talked about playing anybody?"

They played the devil with it over there.

Commenced playing with the fire. Talked as he worked.

O'Connor takes the view that there is something behind the Shakespeare plays—that the play's not the

My memory never played me such a mean trick: I've had horrible experiences to meet, endure—but my memory

I said: "Someone told me that Winter takes the ground that no Italian has any right to play Shakespeare

guilty: I know it is: what I really had in mind was the curio, not the human or historic element, that plays

I have written plays, comedy and tragedy, allegory, satire, and biting political pieces, a few of them

Yet for its better advancement I have to play the part of a grateful citizen—part repugnant!

It is a study—a profound study—the play in life as much as the work in life—and it is all right, too,

Sometimes you don't pay too much for play if you pay your last cent for it."

I find my memory sometimes playing me tricks—working a little rusty: I may be saying to myself, 'it was