Word: coquettishness
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...Company next week. This opera of Bizet is by far the greatest undertaking of the stock company which has achieved such remarkable favor in lighter operas, and its efforts can aim no higher. The story, it is remembered, is that of Carmen, the cigarette girl, the prettiest and most coquettish of all in the factory, who throws a bouquet to Jose, a brigadier at Seville. Jose falls in love. A quarrel ensues among the girls. Carmen, declared the assailant, is ordered to prison. She fascinates the luckless brigadier, Jose, until he connives at her escape, and is himself placed under...
...appearance of Clara Lane as Serpolette, and, as she has done good work since her connection with the organization, it was a foregone conclusion that she would make a success of this part. Vocally she was entirely equal to every requirement, and her acting, too, was vivacious and coquettish. Edith Mason sang Germaine intelligently, and her several numbers were liberally applauded...
...appearance of Clara Lane as Serpolette, and , as she has done good work since her connection with the organization, it was a foregone conclusion that she would made a success of this part. Vocally she was entirely equal to every requirement, and her acting, too, was vivacious and coquettish. Edith Mason sang Germaine intelligently, and her several numbers were liberally applauded...
...across the stage in awkward peasant shoes; her subsidence toward the end of the play into a hooded statue of grief, are exhibitions of her talent which will be remembered even longer than the untheatric pathos of her "Camille," or the bewitching gaiety and extraordinarily mobile skill of the coquettish Locandiera...
...whose skull has been split by some tremendous blow, and yawns in ghastly redness. Another is a young girl, who is dressed in silk and whose dark hair is still coiled neatly, just as those slender, livid fingers last arranged it. She bears no wound, but upon the small, coquettish face is stamped such a look of horror as it might well break a mother's heart to gaze upon. A middle aged man, short, thick-set and resolute looking, has dropped dead in the street, and the gendarmes have brought the nameless body here. He wears a blue blouse...