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...daintiest of all modern comedies, "The Amazons," by Arthur Whig Pinero, will be the attraction at the Columbia, beginning Monday next. "The Amazons" has already been seen in Boston, and made an enormous success at the Hollis Street Theatre. The company that will present it at the Columbia will be under the direction of Mr. Charles Frohman and is headed by Miss Johnston Bennett, who will play the part of Lady Thomasine. Miss Elaine Eilson will be seen as Lady Wilhelmina, and Miss Maud Odell as Lady Noeline. These three young ladies are eminently fitted for the three roles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 12/20/1894 | See Source »

There are but three poems in this number, the sonnet by Celia Thaxter on "Moonlight" being exceptionally exquisite. In the "Bric-a-Brac," perhaps the daintiest verses are "To Her Quill Pen," by Frederic A. Stokes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: March Century. | 3/2/1891 | See Source »

...Game" is one of the daintiest pieces of short verse which the Advocate has published for some time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 5/22/1888 | See Source »

Below is a petition sent to the faculty in 1902 by Miss Winnie Verdantique. It is written - the petition, not Miss Verdantique - on the daintiest kind of note paper with the coat-of-arms of the Green family impressed at the top. For Green pere, you must know, once kept a grocery, "but arter the war he had went on the street" where he was known among his set as "old Green," and so when the Heraldic Bureau were asked to "find" his family escutcheon they suggested that he take the name of Verdantique. The coat-of-arms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "STANDS IT NOT WITHIN THE PROSPECT OF BELIEF?" | 5/18/1882 | See Source »

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