Word: girls
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...story is of Mildred Gleason, an American girl, whose whole being revolts against the monotony of dreary, uneventful missionary existence in Japan. She has passed into her late twenties--that fearsome betwixt and between age--with no friend of her own age near, for her girlhood lover disappeared twelve years before--in the last "Tiger Year." Asano, her old manservant, tells Mildred-san that the smoke-cloud Tiger which glowers over Fuji, caused his going, just as this year it will bring her "wild strange things." Thus when she meets a stranger, Hale, and falls in love, Asano sees...
...Craig prize play for this season. "The Year of the Tiger," by K. L. Andrews 2G will be produced for the first time on any stage at the Castle Square Theatre tonight at 8.10. "The Year of the Tiger" involves the experiences of an American girl in Japan and is based on the Japanese superstition according to which every eighth year is fraught with mystery and evil...
...acting last evening, the chief honors should go to Miss Hinkley as the old woman in "The Reunion," Miss Edith Coombs as the mother in "A Trans- fer of Property," and Miss Auerbach as an Italian girl in "The Little Cards." Of the men in the cast, Mr. Bushnell and Mr. J. H. Hotson were perhaps the best. Mr. Hardinge Scholle, in a small part, did his best to be sinister and disagreeable, but the role does not suit his character. The settings, though in no way remarkable, were extremely true to life, and mention should be made...
...program will be as follows: Overture: Selections from "Flora Bella," Schwarzwald Missouri Waltz, Knight Logan Characteristic Dances, Sarakowski Selections from "The Century Girl." Herbert Exit March: The Royal Legion. R. A. Foss
...feared, a little too intense. "That wonderful child," as Mark Twain calls her in one of his finest stories, was not the anaemic heroine she is pictured in Bastian Lepage's sickly painting in the Metropolitan Museum. She was simply a innocent and gallant girl who said her prayers and did her duty even when it called on her to rescue a nation and die an abominable death. Up to this point, Mme. Farrar's creation is sound and historically accurate. And altogether, it may be said that most of the shocking details of the film may be laid...