Word: ado
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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BOSTON THEATRE. -Mr. Henry Irving in "Much Ado About Nothing" Performance...
MUSEUM. - Mlle. Rhea in "Much Ado About Nothing...
MUSEUM. - Mlle Rhea in "Much Ado About Nothing...
...next feature on the programme was Light Weight Sparring; the contestants for the first bout being G. F. Spalding, '82, and O. G. Smith, '83. After shaking hands, the men went at each other, and without much ado began to pound one another. At first it seemed as if Smith had fallen, but it was merely a slip on the floor. Spalding drew first blood, Smith having been hit in the eye. In the second round, after several feints, the contestants delivered a number of hard blows, Spalding escaping several well-directed blows from Smith, by very skilful ducking. There...
...admire. Just now we have on the tapis a course of readings from Shakspere, by Prof. R. R. Raymond, the first of which was to have been given this evening, but was postponed on account of Prof. Raymond's illness. He is to read "Julius Caesar," "Henry IV," "Much Ado About Nothing" and "The Winter's Tale." We are particularly anxious to hear his personation of Fallstaff, in which, we have been told, he is at his best, and from what we know of Prof. Raymond and the famous fat knight, we can easily imagine it must be irresistibly droll...