Word: eliza
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Next day Mr. Davis' secretary, Eliza beth McGahey, was confined...
...distinguished Virginia lady, Isobel Lamont Stewart, Bryan married another: Anne Eliza Tennant, daughter of a rich tobacco merchant. John Stewart Bryan Jr. is head of the Bryan real-estate company. Son David Tennant Bryan, now general manager of the News Leader, is his father's probable successor...
...Uncle Tom's Cabin was not. In his 87 years in the theatre, Uncle Tom has taken some awful beatings-from stagefolk as well as from Simon Legree-but never a worse one than at Waukegan, where there was no auction block, no whipping post, no bloodhounds, no Eliza crossing the ice. Topsy and Little Eva remained-but precious little...
Famous is an old-time two-line review: "Uncle Tom's Cabin played here last night. The dogs were good." Anything went in a Tom Show. Eliza might cross the ice against a backdrop of the tropics. There were comedy teams, minstrel troupes, animal acts. There were "double shows"-two Uncle Toms, two Topsies, two Legrees; there were even triple shows. Harriet Beecher Stowe once went to see Uncle Tom's Cabin in Hartford and had to have the plot explained...
...sure-fire moments were the bloodhounds chasing Eliza, and Little Eva's ascent to Heaven on a block & tackle...