Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan anecdotes and wit
A portrait feature on William Schwenk Gilbert, detailing his stage craft and quick comebacks. It covers his adapting for managers like Charles Wyndham, his satire in Bab Ballads, and anecdotes from the Savage Club and gossip about his travels and upcoming comic opera ideas.
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Howard Paul
W. S. Gilbert
Gilbert
Charles Wyndham
Wyndham
Criterion Manager
Ginpert
Victorien Sardou
Grosvenor Gallery
Burne-Jones
Pyramids
Egypt
Tom Hood
Fun
Savage Club
Macfussel
London
Harleck
Stranger from Lyndon Seeks Star Theater and Lawrence Barrett
A tall hollow-chested man from Lyndon Vermont stops a Broadway patrolman to ask directions to the Star Theater. He recalls meeting Lawrence Barrett as a boy, notes Barrett grew up in Seyndon Corners, and claims Barrett rose from humble beginnings to become a noted tragedian in Hernani. He says he's come to see the act and will arrive early for a seat.
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Broadway
Bleecker Street
Star Theater
Broadway Squad
Tun
Lyndon
Lawrence Barrett
Seyndon Corners
Loyndon Academy
Barrett
Montreal
Lawrence
American Actor. the Paper Says He Is Playing In ‘Hernani
New York Star
Booths Secret Battle with Drink Revealed in Syracuse
A Syracuse Herald writer links Edwin Booths struggle with drink to family turmoil including the assassin brother and a maddening lineage. He credits Booths daughter as guardian angel guiding him away from excess until last winter when she married and he faced temptation alone.
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Syracuse Herald
Edwin Booth
Booths
Booth
Play and ballet plans for Miss Fortescue and Vienna premiere
Green Room gossip notes Mr Ginwrnr writing a play for Miss Fortescue whose American season opens October 18. Andton Rupenstein finishes a ballet The Grape Wine to be produced in Vienna featuring twenty one wine figures escaping a cask and paying homage to the champagne king, a finale not liked in Germany.
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Germany
Steinberger
Joannisberg
Metternich
Heynote
Reminiscences of Public Men and Alaska Curiosities
Long reminiscences recount early slavery battles during Pierce era with Buchanan Mason Soule and filibusters. mentions Knownothingism and the rise of the Republicans, Lincoln stories, and anti-slavery debates. Climatic curiosities describe Alaska's tropical atmosphere, mossy totems, and tangled timber along the Great River.
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Pierce
James Buchanan
England
John Y. Mason
France
Pierre Soule
Spain
Department of State
United States
Texas
Mexico
Atlantic
Cuba
Sonora
Nicaragua
William Walker
Destiny
Houston
Slidel
Free States
Lynch
Cushing
Frothingham
Boston
Friends of Freedom
Washington
North
Lincoln
Father B
Fox River
Sox River
Alasica
Alaska
Great River
Dentist Turns Painful Tooth Extraction Into Gag
Narrow tale from Venus Siftings about Kosciusko Murphy who hires a dentist claiming teeth pulled without pain. After a loud finale the patient pays five dollars saying no pain was felt, while the punchline hits the doctor.
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Kosciusko Murphy
Murphy
Medal from Vernon saga linked to Mount Vernon estate
Elias Reed recalls finding a near intact medal in Dover Delaware showing Admiral Vernon Took Porte a Bello on one side and six ships on the other With story tying the medal to Parliament authorization and Vernon s siege of a pirate fortress in the Caribbean and to Mount Vernon estate named by Lawrence Washington The relic is presented to Mrs Margaret Comegys Mount Vernon Association for keepsakes in Philadelphia News.
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Elias 8. Reed
Buena Vista
New Jersey
Dover
Delaware
Admiral Vernon
Toodle
Edward Vernon
House of Commons
Admiralty
England
Great Britain
Caribbean Sea
Mgr. Vernon
Crown
Vernon
George Washington
Potomac
Lawrence Washington
George the Third
Florida
Mount Vernon
Margaret Comegys
Mount Vernon Association
Witty Flourish Amid Odd Dining Request and Train Delay
A Chicago diner questions a waiter with a bizarre craving list including glucose and plumbago, while a Dakota branch line passenger laments a two hour delay on Monday. The exchange ends with a weary quip about pulling out at dawn.
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Dakota Road
Lsielline
Bell
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Aurelia Sentinel
the Playhouse
The
Edwin Forrest
William Schwenk Gilbert
Rothschild
Marie Bancroeft
Ben. Perley Poorel
Republic
Church of Rome
Old Stagers
Glorious Old Organization
Clay
Webster
Teras Siftings
Chicago
Times
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