The Stage Gossip on Mary Anderson and Theatre Life
Mary Anderson rose from Kentucky amateur to Juliet in Louisville aided by editor support and public tickets sales. The piece recalls McCullough tales, Lyceum guidance, and the prompter’s unseen toil shaping performances amid early American theater culture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Anderson
Louisville
Kentucky
Juliet
William Griffiths
Romeo
Barney Macauley
Cincinnati
Macquley
Tuliet
Barney
Old Barney
Watterson
Mr. Macauley
New York
Griffiths
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Irving
Lyceum
Booth
Parlor Games and Clock Lore From Old Society
A vivid miscellany describes parlor games with lighted and unlit handles and a geography word recall contest. It recounts a mock auction of statues, a hands on clockmaking history from Anaximander to Sylvester II, and colorful anecdotes including a prank with a hidden handkerchief and a tall tale of noble effort.
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Bilkins
Brown
Mr. Brown
Cloud Heights Measured at Upsala Observatory
Measurements taken at Upsala Observatory last summer show stratus clouds around 2 000 feet nimbus rain clouds 3 600 to 7 200 feet cannulus 4 300 to 18 000 feet and cirrus about 22 400 feet. Cloud heights remain difficult to gauge but are regarded as fairly exact.
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Upsala
The Children and Pets in a Detroit Free Press Read
A nostalgic piece recounts pets Paso the dog Tortchees the rat and three dogs Jack Prinnie and Gip with stories of their tricks and fates. It includes Tiny the tiny terrier owned by Sir Archibald Maclaine and a brave girl Lady Catherine Graham who saved her father during Mary’s era.
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Paso
Jack
Prinnie
Gip
St. Lawrence
Havana
Cuba
Polly
Chuck
Tiny
Archibald Maclaine
England
C. J. Russell
St. Nicholas
Miss Strickland
Queens of
Enland
Mary
Lord Preston
James
Liddy Catharine Graham
Windsor Castle
Lady Catharine
St. George's Gallery
James II
Peculiar Occupations and a Russian Fire Raising Scam
The piece surveys unusual census jobs in India such as low black guards and hereditary ink horn priests, and reports a Russian fire raising scam where insurers paid 20 percent for arson until Libau police trapped members. It also cites a Texas court remark to Jim Webster and a farm milk pump anecdote from Puck.
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Allahabad
India
Russia
St. Petersburg
Libau
Pall Mall Gazette
Puck
Locks of Gold and the Cost of a Hair Fantasy
A barber recounts a Madison Avenue visit to a sickly young woman who demands a hair cut and later asks for dye to make the remaining locks appear golden. She offers $500 and a ruse to deceive her parents. The tale contrasts vanity with a mother’s eventual acceptance and notes on mirrors and self-knowledge.
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Madison Avenue
Papa
Europe
Mamma
Mamie
Toften
Fifth Avenue
New York: Times
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Orr
Litchell Capital
Mitchell, Dak
Mmullough
Edwin Booth
Diary Anderson
McCullough
Cleveland
Richmond
Lady of
Lyons
Claude Melnotte
Lake
Como
Bulwer
Prithee
Auditure
McCulough
Win Looth
Hilly
Hooley
Chicago
Jo Reynolds
Reynolds
New York Sun
Onacen
America
Anaximander
Rome
Scipio Nasica
Chaldea
Egypt
Architudes
Boethius
Paul I
Pepin
France
Pacificus
Verona
Gerbert
Sylvester II
Mazdeburg
Peter Hele
Nuremburg
Inter Ocean
Hercules
Carlyle
Old Magazine
Crawford
Chicago News
Bradder
John de Baptist
Fred
Grandpa
Philadelphia
Arthur
Grandma
Detroit Free Press
Jim Webster
Texas
Boss
Perliceman
Mepizvat
New Orleans Times
Fader
Bill
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