Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...comic Irish sketch of "Father Phil's Collection," was a bright and clever piece and afforded the reader many opportunities which were availed of. "A Senator Entangled" and "The Fourth of July Celebration at Jonesville" were, as their titles announce, American caricatures. The latter closed the entertainment...
...ZAUBERLEHRLING.Some of the actors of the Lilliputians who give Der Zauberlehrling at the Hollis Street this week are clever players, especially Herr Ebert, the smallest. The music is very pretty...
LITTLE EM'LY."Little Em'ly" at the Museum is a characterization of David Copperfield, or rather of that part of the story concerning Em'ly. The play loses by comparison with the book, but has enough substance left to lend itself well to the clever treatment of the Museum Company. The Uriah Heep of Mr. Wilson is the mainstay of the piece, though the Wilkins Micawber of Mr. Boniface is full of excellent touches. Miss Annie Clark has little to do, but as usual does it artistically. The other members of the company are uniformly good with...
...CHARITY BALL.The Charity Ball which comes to the Hollis from the Lyceum Theatre, New York, where it ran the greater part of last season, is a society drama of a somewhat high order; the play is strong and the lines and situations clever, though the humorous element is outweighed by the sober study of love and sacrifice. The company is familiar to theatre-goers; Herbert Kelcey in the sober part of the rector, Le Moyne, in the lighter part of an old man. Misses Cayvan and Crosman in the leading feminine roles and Effie Shannon as soubrette won applause from...
...Yesterday and Tomorrow," though short and slight, contains some clever imaginative touches. An excessive use of the auxiliary "would" is notice able...