Word: comic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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BOSTON THEATRE. - Thalia Comic Opera Company in "The Prince Cousort." Performance...
...Friday evening the Apollo Club performed a comic oratorio, composed by Professor Paine, entitled, "Radway's Ready Relief." It was written in 1863, under a pseudonym for the Apollo Club, but no one could discover the composer. It was performed several times with great success. Nothing was heard of it for years, until it was discovered Professor Paine had composed it. Being asked by the club to produce it once again, he consented, after revising it. It is both witty and charming. It recounts the sad misfortunes of a man overtaken by asthma or some kindred disease, and the ready...
...action portraying faithfully the French matron, while the latter took the part of the young lady. In the farce Mr. Cushing's rendering, in falsetto voice, of "Where Art Thou Now, My Beloved?" was a taking feature of the evening. Mr. Belshaw also brought down the house with his comic songs. The following was the cast...
...painted, we must express our surprise that its editors select and reprint as an advertisement of their paper an envious fling at the Lampoon and at "Boston superciliousness," taken from the New York Critic. "In view of its success," cries the Critic, "there is something highly comic [sic] in the assertion of certain Boston papers that it is a continuation of the Harvard Lampoon. It owes less to the Lampoon than it does to the Columbia Spectator, and as Mr. McVickar, Mr. J. Brander Matthews, Mr. F. D. Sherman, Mr. H. G. Paine, Mr. F. B. Herzog, Mr. Arthur Penn...
...this kind of music that it is difficult for amateur composers any longer to command sufficient spontaneity and self-confidence for the production of lively and "taking" college songs. The most plausible explanation of the change, however, is found in the recent growth and wide-spread popularity of comic opera and similar music of the day. It is suggested that these light and popular melodies are coming to take the place in college life of the older class of distinctively college songs. And so, with the rapid abandonment of all the more prominent characteristics of student life that is taking...