Word: comical
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...matter of much speculation in public circles as to what the Castle Square Opera Company will do next. Beginning with the lighter comic operas the organization has steadily progressed until Carmen, Faust and Trovatore have been given with great fidelity in detail and a general performance for above the average. With the present week comes another change, a season of Gilbert and Sullivan operas is announced, the favorite "Iolanthe" being the first in the series...
...slight matter to thus change from Grand to Comic opera, but the Castle Square Opera Company seems able to do this and win new success...
...Chap Book and has about as little provocation. These little publications of indecent drivel are cropping up in such numbers that they have become a positive plague. The great danger is that, in time, people may come to take them seriously. So long as they are regarded as comic papers, however, they will be harmless if not amusing...
...effect of Mr. Barrie's best book. "Ian Maclaren" does not force the pathetic note, but he repeats it too often perhaps within the compass of one volume; and "Beside the Bonny Briar Bush" would have added to its indubitably strong effect with a more frequent contrast of the comic and some such centering principle as that of "A Window in Thrums." Maclaren's pathos on the other hand is indescribably quick, poignant, and as the French say-saisissant. And if all his two volumes were on the same level with "Doninie," "Drumsheugh's Love Story," and "A Doctor...
...Lampoon, out today, shows a marked improvement over its predecessors of this year, and is decidedly above the standard which the Lampoon has maintained. In fact, it compares favorably in certain features with many of the professional comic papers...