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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1887
Page
3
A brisk collection of gossip and vignettes about Salvini Decca Crane Robson and other stage figures. Includes Salvini at a Nevada wedding breakfast and amusing anecdotes about actors children and famous personalities from Washington and Cohasset with light humor and social charm.
The piece profiles Sam Sanford as possibly the oldest negro minstrel and recalls his career from a one man opera house on Eleventh Street to touring acts. A stop at a small New Jersey Methodist Church prompts Sanford to reflect on settling down to better the world, then jokes about using church walls for posters.
Brander Matthews lauds M. Coquelin as France’s premier comedian praising his restraint over emotion in acting and citing Diderot. The piece contrasts Coquelin with Rachel and notes Booth’s anecdote of pathos in Fool’s Revenge and a long column of stage notes and social musings on French society and performers.
A humorous column recounts social figures at the De Peyton ball. A joke exchange about Mrs Arthur De Garmo yields a $1.5 million joke line. A doctor in a separate vignette jokes about lockjaw, underscoring light domestic satire.
Miss Frampton recalls late 18th century fashion, noting powder and pomatum, large pyramid hair with many pins, and caps. She describes corseted waists, duchess scale squeezing to an orange size, and hoops varying by dress, with lace, gauze handkerchiefs, and stomachers completing the look.
The piece argues that women face challenges balancing talent and performance with fatigue in leisure settings. It contrasts the burdens of the working man with the supposed leisure of women, urging that true value lies in domestic, journalistic, culinary, instructive, and charitable work. It cites George Eliot on perseverance and emphasizes women’s essential societal contributions.
A hotel clerk’s brief, automatic replies irk journalists but reflect routine service. The piece contrasts snobbish clerks with seasoned staff and recalls a Senator’s sharp rebuke. It then surveys American humorists from Artemus Ward to George W. Peck, noting faded names and the demand for fresh, original wit.
A Balkan cor variant describes Bucharest as a booming capital with 500 millionaires wintering there and notes Romania's Latin tongue, land assets, and backward industry. It contrasts German models in the army and the lack of sugar from beet beets with aging infrastructure and modernization talks. It also compares English and American nomenclature and recounts a dog’s uncanny forewarning before a train crash involving Mr C.
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