One Act Plays Abroad and in New York and London
The one act play movement grows in English theaters with Paris Grand Guignol influence. Arnold Daly in Chicago and Miss Lens Ashwell in London staged short pieces by English writers, including Anthony Wharton and Strindberg works translated by Velma Swanson Howard.
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Paris
Arnold Daly
Chicago
New York
London
Lens Ashwell
Anthony Wharton
Trene Wycherly
Charlotte
M. K. Clifford
Johann August Strindberg
Herald Square Theater
Stringberg
Velma Swanson Howard
Gossip of the Stage in 1900s Broadway Headlines
George M. Cohan to aid in furnishing a musical called The Bonnie Belles of Scotland for Alice Lloyd. Arnold Kiralfy, famous producer, dies in New York. Blanche Bates seeks to found a home for needy Forty-niners in California. About 400 companies reportedly sing The Merry Widow worldwide. George Ade’s Artie to be given musical dress. New York melodrama uses a phonograph to reproduce stage howls.
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George M. Cohan
Alice Lloyd
Scotland
Arnold Kiralfy
New York City
Blanche Bates
California
George Ade
Artie
New York
Henpecked husbands guide from a vaudeville sketch
A humorous set of rules by Richard Carle for navigating married life. It suggests dodging confrontation, entering boldly, and playing the sympathetic part. It advises to listen without hearing, let your wife lead choices, and humorously temper temper with tact and wit.
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Richard Carle
Mary
Jay
Merry Widow Riot Rocks Montenegrin Theater
A theater in Montenegro was raided by a mob after management refused to withdraw The Merry Widow. The angry crowd claimed the opera insulted Montenegrins as the libretto centers on the escapades of a prince.
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Montenegro
How To Clean Black Lace With Deep Blue Gum Water
The guide advises shaking dust from black lace and dipping in deep blue gum water then washing in soap suds. It notes a brownish lace improves with blue water, rolling in cloth, pinning between cloth and sheet, tissue paper, and ironing to avoid a glassy finish. A milk and water dip serves as an alternative for stiffening.
Eggs in mushroom sauce for breakfast or lunch
Poached eggs served with a rich mushroom sauce. Mushrooms chopped finely with lemon juice and melted butter, then enriched with milk soaked French rolls and a milk thickening, strained, red heated, and finished with onions. Eggs poached in the milk and arranged over the sauce with fried bread garnish.
Economy Eggs A Classic Potato and Bacon Dish
Large boiling potatoes sliced thickly are fried in hot lard until golden. Crisp bacon is laid on each potato slice, then a poached egg is placed atop with bacon in between. A parsley sprig finishes the dish for a tasty serve.
Chocolate Eclairs Recipe with Meringuelike Frosting
A vintage recipe describes weighing four eggs and sugar, then adding flour and baking powder. Whisk yolks with sugar, fold in whites and flour, flavor with vanilla, form paper canoes, bake hot, and finish with a chocolate frosting made from melted chocolate and confectioners sugar.
Patty Patties and Creamed Clams Recipe Note
Patty paste described for light puff pastries cut into rounds with center openings to hold filling bake quickly and puff. Creamed clams use steamed clams chopped into small pieces folded into a white sauce with cream butter flour and clam juice served on buttered toast with parsley.
Baby’s Table in Infant Room
Description of a small bedside table in the infant’s room with a drawer and tile shelf. The table holds a Mutle basket, four basins and four stones, with folded napkins for use. Drawer stores bibs and two baby flannel blankets. shelf below holds pads and large napkins.
New Cake Recipes Almond Cocoa Pineapple Revealed
A 19th century recipe list presents almond cakes with almonds sugar and lemon rind, cocoa cake with butter eggs and milk, pineapple cake with orange icing, Austrian puffs with almonds cream and flower water, fig cake with figs, and lemon cake with lemon rind.
Unusual House Cleaning Order Explained as Practical
The text discusses a household practice where a housewife cleans the top room first, then the cellar, and finally the first floor. She argues the cellar’s coal dust rises through the registers, making subsequent cleaning on the first floor unnecessary if done first. The reasoning is presented as plausible.
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Perveras
Test for Butter Purity Methods from To Hat
A historical note describes two tests for butter purity. One uses heating in an iron spoon to observe foaming, the other uses immersion in boiling water to compare curd clarity.
Icing Recipe With Candied Fruit and Nuts
A traditional icing method is described using granulated sugar and water boiled to thread stage. Fold into stiffly beaten egg white, add hot syrup slowly, and beat until smooth. Stir in candied cherries citron pineapple and blanched almonds just before cooling.
Chocolate Bars From A Frugal Bakes Notebook
Beat six yolks with one cup powdered sugar until light then add lemon juice and heat. Have ready four tablespoons flour one teaspoon cinnamon one teaspoon baking powder. Fold into egg mixture, fold in whipped whites of six eggs. Bake in two thin layers, assemble with white icing then ice with chocolate. Slice into squares or oblongs when cold.
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Bert
Sponge Drops Recipe From A Tea Time Treasury
Sponge drops plain batter beat three eggs with one cup sugar for five minutes. Fold in flour mixed with cream of tartar and soda. Add lemon flavor and butter the tin sheets. Drop spoonfuls three inches apart for baking.
Moonshine Sim Bailey Faces Sentence In Moonshining Case
In a West Virginia courtroom moonshiner Sim Bailey stands trial for making corn whiskey in violation of federal law. He defends his actions by detailing neighborly care for Bill Duncan and his wife, but admits guilt and asks the judge to set aside the verdict and grant a new trial while Duncan contemplates his own motives and reward.
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United States
Sim Bailey
Bill Duncan
Sim
Bill
Raccoon Run
Jedze
Bill Dunncan
Jedge
Gill
Honge
Hawkes
Bil
Dilly
el Duncan
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Zzonora Herwin
Ferreau
Moonshine
Short Story Pub. Co
Lill
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