Word: guardsman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...repertory will consist of the four most successful plays in recent Guild production: Arms and the Man, The Guardsman, Mr. Pirn Passes By, The Silver Cord...
...same autumn 1927) that Mrs. Fiske starts her tour, the Theatre Guild of New York will launch a "road" enterprise. Four plays, Mr. Pirn Passes By, The Silver Cord, The Guardsman, Arms & the Man, will be presented in principal cities by a permanent company of Broadway actors under Guild supervision. The plays noted are among the most successful in the repertory...
...frolic on a Shrove Tuesday morning one hundred years ago in old New Orleans. Through the gumbo mud, the open ditches, along the plank sidewalks, under the street lanterns, paraded seven drunken students, back from their schools in France. As they whirled past the colonial guard station, a startled guardsman gave pursuit to the celebrators, chased them pell-mell down into the Old Quarter, by the Place D'Armes, past the St. Louis Cathedral, along streets lined with white houses embroidered with iron balconies...
...grizzly "Kaintucks" lay at anchor. New Orleans was the richest city in the Americas and rivaled New York as a port. Bushy-whiskered rivermen were resentfully discussing that "outrageous sale of Louisiana to the United States." The boys disappeared in the bales piled high on the wharf. The suspicious guardsman peered about for a while, looked out over the muddy Mississippi and the waving grasses back in the impenetrable swamps, spat, returned to his post at the ale house, where he took up once more his duty with his cherie...
...Seventy-One Years of a Guardsman's Life-General Sir George Higginson (1916). * A fall of gathered material...