Gossip and heartache in stage circles across nations
In a London backstage scene, American actress Miss Morris discusses illness, fame, and gossip while eyeing a return to America to prove her worth. Genevieve Ward impresses the Prince of Wales, who discovers her American roots and refined French.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tress
Alice
Miss Morris Red
Genevieve Ward
London
Prince of Wales
Stephanie
Prince
Sir Horace
Mr. Bruce
America
Stage Brevities and Theatre Menace Notes
A collage of stage anecdotes from London and New York era theatre life. Commentary on actors Sothern Potter Barrett and touring plans, plus a warning on theater fire safety and quick egress in Boston venues.
Faith and Workethic in Everyday Religion
Sam Small reflects on Bob Ingersoll and his atheism while recounting his own conversion journey from a high earning police reporter to a devout minister. He credits his mother’s Bible lessons and warns that true faith guides through life’s pressures, contrasting with secular skepticism.
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David
Sam Small
Bob Ingersoll
God
Dring
Atlanta
Georgia
Washington
Paris
Legation
Ingersoll
New York Mail
Feline Tales From Many Lands And A Norman Armor Note
A collection of short items on cats and their feats from Sebastopol and Hartwell to Paris and China, plus a legend of two sacks and a medieval defensive armor description. Also notes on northern winds and a chameleon color mechanism with explanations of pigment cells and background matching in various species.
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William
Edward J. Lowell
Scribner's Magazine
Harold
Chameleon
Bray
Salviati
Grant Allen
Cornhill Magazine
Beechers Sermons Extracts Reflect Morals and Home Duty
Excerpts from Beechers Sermons emphasize home life as central and truth and charity as guiding virtues. The text contrasts public influence with private responsibility and warns against sins anchored in the household. It includes a humorous classroom exchange and a Brantford incident about crow consumption causing illness.
I Am Not Guilty Say Prisoner With Three Witnesses
A prisoner pleads innocence to a crime claiming three witnesses can attest he was at home caring for his baby. Counsel adds a lullaby proof. The exchange is reported with a humorous aside about lullaby evidence. Also notes a child’s reply about a step mother and a quip about rising early.
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Birmingham
Sothern
Deuce
Mr. Sothern
Enishmen
Olin
Newark
Texas
Montana
Dakota
Texas Livestock Journal
Atlas
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Byrey
Hutt
ES Capital. L
P Playhouse
Premini
Borns
John T. Raymond
George R. Sims
Haymarket
DeEuGer
Bressier
Mrs. Potter
New York World
Anne Sylvest
Maur
Saran Bersnarpt
Europe
Lyceum Theater
M. Mayer
Henny Irving
Jingle
Irving
Lawrence Barrett
Booth-Barrett
Cusar
Mr. Booth
Brutus
Cassius
Taga
Lear
Edgar
Hamlet
the Ghost
Shylock
David Garrick
Don Cesar
Ruy Blas
Boston
Silson Barrett
Key of David
Bob Ingersell
J. J. Redwood
Museum OF Crime
NEW York Police Bureau
Inspector Byrnes
Gustave Kindt
Gus
Kindt and Klein
Nat White
Mike Shanahan
Reading Railroad
Langdon W. Moore
Charley Adams
Concord Bank
Massachusetts
Delaware River
Richard Wheatley
Harper’s Magazine
Toough
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Sebastopol
W. H. Stephenson
Hartwell
Isle of
Cyprus
Cosmopolitan
Egypt
Peter Hue
Brooklyn
Number One
Number Two
Beecher
Brantford
Canada
Detroit Free Press
Mr. Trot
Tom
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