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EXETER, N. H., November 12, 1897.- Exeter defeated Andover 18-14 yesterday afternoon in one of the best and cleverest contests ever seen between preparatory schools. Five minutes' more play would undoubtedly have enabled Andover to score again, and by kicking a goal to win the game. As it was, Exeter took a brace just in time and managed to hold their opponents. Any other game but football would have been postponed, for the field was literally a mass...
...usual the specialties are the funniest feature of the play. "The Prisoner of Sunday," an absurd burlesque on the Prisoner of Zenda, by Schurz and Knoblauch, is the cleverest. The X-ray specialty by M. E Stone, Jr., '97 and H. A. Curtis '96 is very funny, and the Tyrolean dance by F. S. Hoppin '96 and H. B. Fenno '97 is both graceful and picturesque...
...Tangent," by Edward H. James, is by all odds the cleverest story in the Monthly. Of it may be said as has been of Henry James's novels that "the characters lounge, and the plot proceeds out of their mouths." The interest in the story is all in the dialogue and in the subtle shades of feeling which are connoted with great nicety. The story has a peculiar charm in that the interest in it lingers after the last word has been read. Understanding as we do that "Tangent" was written some years ago, we can not help bewailing that...
...Monday next, April 15, "A Trip to Chinatown," conceded to be one of Hoyt's cleverest pieces of work will begin a two weeks' engagement at the Tremont Theatre. The only changes made in the piece since it was last seen here are the songs, dances, etc., and the costuming, which will be entirely new. The leading roles will be assumed by Harry Conor, the original Well and Strong; Geraldine McCann, who will appear as the dashing young widow; Harry Gilfoil, the famous whistling soloist, who takes the part of the waiter, and George Richards, who will be seen...
...Monday next, April 15, "A Trip to Chinatown," conceded to be one of Hoyt's cleverest pieces of work will begin a two weeks' engagement at the Tremont Theatre. The only changes made in the piece since it was last seen here are the songs, dances, etc., and the costuming, which will be entirely new. The leading roles will be assumed by Harry Conor, the original Well and Strong; Geraldine McCann, who will appear as the dashing young widow; Harry Gilfoil, the famous whistling soloist, who takes the part of the waiter, and George Richards, who will be seen...