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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1919
Page
8
Empire hosts the Pickett Stock Company for a week long engagement with a big vaudeville and concert starting at seven. A second show begins around 8 30 with some acts repeated later. A rich comedy sketch is added in each show. Admission 26 and 36 cents including tax. Tell friends and attend Saturday.
George W. Hobart, author of Experience, moved with his parents to Hagerstown Maryland where he learned telegraphy. He worked as an operator in Cumberland and at the Baltimore Sun before writing funny stories for the Sun. He later produced thirty musical comedies and other dramatic works that found success on the American stage. His serious work Experience became a modern morality comedy drama lasting months in Washington Baltimore and New York.
The Experience by Hobart, hailed as America’s most wonderful play by critics, has been extended three times in a year. John Henry and Dinkelspiel characters are famous nationwide and the show arrives at the Empire on Tuesday October 21 with curtain at 8 30. Tickets range 50 cents to 2 dollars, boxes 2 50.
The article lauds women’s frontline wartime labor and links overwork to female ailments. It promotes Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a standard restorative for health and strength, claiming it has helped many women recover.
The monasteries once thickly strewn throughout England and much of Europe were called abbots from abbots meaning fathers and abbots. Those governed by a prior were called priories derived from prior.
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