Word: courtesans
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LULU BELLE - Lenore Ulric's savage performance as a Negress courtesan, making a not particularly important play into memorable entertainment...
...coincidence, the mistress of a Prince, a Lord of the Realm, and their servants, maid and man. The Lord hopes to secure the lady for himself. Failing in his bluntly amorous attack, he sets his servant the task of seducing and humiliating her. In the process the slightly battered courtesan and the discreetly handsome manservant fall in love and dash off, as the curtain falls, to a London marriage altar...
...save her soul from hellfire, for in the play she was not good at all. She was Maria Jeritza (Baroness Von Popper) pretending to be Thais (famed harlot) at the season's first performance of the opera of that name. Now it is not difficult for a courtesan to pretend to be a great lady. The best courtesans are said to give a certain number of hours each day to the practice of this role, some of them, indeed, becoming so adept that no expert can detect them; and they take their places in the world's history...
RAIN?In which the clergyman and the courtesan change places in the dripping forests of a South Sea Island. Approaching its third year...
RAIN-People are now beginning to boast about the number of times they have seen the courtesan destroy the charletan...