Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Monday Mrs. J. R. Vincent will take a benefit at that very beneficial theatre, the Museum. Well-conducted theatres, by the way, rarely give benefits; they regard it as begging patronage, and clever managers decline to make charitable institutions of their houses. Mr. Boucicault will appear in "Suil-a-Mor," and the performance will close with the performance, "Poor Pillicoddy...
Speaking of Bouguereau, one of his pupils, De Quivieres, a rising young Parisian, has one of the most striking pictures in the exhibition. A more clever combination of drawing and coloring is seldom seen. The idea, too, is pleasing: A young girl resting in most careless fashion on a bank of deep green grass, glancing seaward over a stretch of lighter green water, so natural that one longs for summer to come again that he may experience the reality. The pose of the figure is most graceful, being relieved by a light airy summer dress, dainty gloves a la Bernhardt...
Henry James, who is now one of the lions of Washington society, has a number of stories told at his expense. Here is the latest: He asked a clever young lady if there was not a river near Washington called the Potomac. "Oh, yes," said she, "and I should think you would know all about it, because there is a place on it called Mount Vernon, where a man named Washington lived. You are sure to have heard of him, you know, because his father was an Englishman...
...Globe has been drawing large houses to one of the weakest performances we have ever witnessed. The same performance will be given during the coming week. It is thoroughly stupid and, while the Hanlons are clever acrobats, the piece, "Le Voyage en Suisse," does not possess the least merit...
...Another clever manoeuvre by the prosecution in the star route cases...