Word: flora
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second week continues to draw large crowds at the Boston Theatre. The various pleasing dances and songs especially the ever delightful "Razzle Dazzle" trio in the second act never fail to evoke merited applause. The leading parts are well sustained by Mr. George F. Marion, Mr. Leslie, and Miss Flora Walsh, although Mr. Lesiie as "Doolittle Work," is a trifle too cold in his gestures and actions. The three members of the "Razzle-Dazzle" trio were unimpeachable as examples of toughness and their various evolutions in the songs caused repeated encores. As a whole the "Brass Monkey" has too much...
...stories in this number have insignificant plots which skill in treatment cannot entirely replace. "Beatrice or Flora" is prettily told, though in one or two passages the English strikes the reader as clumsy or inelegant. It would have been improved by the omission of the roundabout introduction. "Du Guesclin's Mistake" is photographic in its accuracy of detall and stops abruptly as if incomplete. It is, however, pleasing in effect...
...theatre last night to an overflowing house. Great applause greeted the company. The scene of the auction room in which most of the play took place is one of extraordinarry ingenuity of detail and thoughtfulness. Pretty dancing and gay costumes were seen in abundance. George Marion, as Josiah and Flora Walsh as Baggage his daughter, divided the honors...
...Phoenician coins and inscriptions; Syriac inscriptions and manuscripts; Hebrew coins and manuscripts, together with facsimiles of the Siloam inscription and of that of the Moabite stone (this last the oldest known writing in the Phoenician character); Arabic coins and manuscripts; Sabean inscriptions; Etheopic manuscripts; specimens of the fauna and flora of Semitic lands; and a work library and study rooms. This apparatus, while designed primarily for the use of members of the university, will be offered to all students, and will be, as far as the conditions allow, open to the public...