Word: dwarfishness
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Dates: during 1878-1878
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...maid and her princely lover, acted and sang their parts to the satisfaction of the audience, Mr. Sheafe's serenade in the second act being particularly good. Mr. Cowdin's song, "Awfully Clevah," was well received. The part of the dwarf, Rumplestiltskin, was played by the by-no-means dwarfish Mr. Donaldson; but, as it was hardly suited to him, his success was not so great as in the Friday performance. The costumes were capital, particularly those of Messrs. Story, Donaldson, and Twombley, and that of Mr. Churchill, who made a most Mephistophelean detective, and whose appearance closely resembled that...