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...Anne Boleyn, young, bold, bright-faced, ambitious. Her sister had been a mistress of Henry's. No mistress would she be. Heavy-breathing Henry wrote long love letters to her with hearts drawn on them. She bore Elizabeth. He said she was adulterous, chopped off her head...
York House. On the site of "a hospital for 14 maidens that were leprous," dedicated to St. James the Less, Henry VIII built a palace, which he inhabited with Anne Boleyn until he tired of both. With the burning of the great Palace of Whitehall, the sovereigns of England from William III to George IV maintained there the Court of St. James's, still a synonym for the Court of Britain. There Charles I slept out the night before his execution; there the ill-starred Marie de Medici, Queen of Henry IV of France, found a refuge; there George...
Some of her works were written in collaboration with Mite Kremnitz, one of her maids of honor, sometimes under the pseudonyms of Dito et Idem: Aus zwei Welten (1884), Anna Boleyn (1886), Edleen Vaughan (1894), Sweet Hours...
...Shaw are really remarkably good amateur actors, and the parts in this little farce were such as to bring out the talent of each in its best light, and the audience justly rewarded them with unusual applause and enthusiasm. At the matinee we had "Virginia Mummy" and "Anne Boleyn." The former is a decidedly weak farce, which was only relieved by the excellent negro delineation of Mr. Sturgis. The burlesque is new, we believe, and is probably destined to be a favorite. All the parts were well taken, and all should be equally praised; but we must again compliment Messrs...
...Horticultural Hall, this evening and to-morrow afternoon, for the benefit of the H. U. B. C. The programme for this evening (Friday) is "Your Life's in Danger" and "The Follies of a Night." To-morrow afternoon (Saturday) will be presented the "Virginia Mummy" and the burlesque "Anne Boleyn." The Pierian will furnish more of that excellent music of which we so lately had a specimen at their concert...