Word: hoys
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...rendition of that beautiful ballad about having completed all the peculiar roles that Nature, in her all-provident way, has imposed upon the youth who has not reached the age when it behooves him to believe that he has a moustache - "I'm gittin' a big b'hoy neow" - in short...
...hoy Ascantus Mr. R. D. Sears...
...great success. The cast was as follows: Dido, E. H. Pendleton, Jr.; Anna, J. S. Webb; Tyria, J. E. Weld; Aeneas, ("the only original sentimental tramp and impoverished hero"), E. J. Wendell; Achates, ("the original Me-Too and one of the 306"), H. G. Chapin, Jr.; the B'hoy Ascanius, ("the only original infant prodigy"), R. D. Sears; Palinurus, A. Matthews; the Butler Punicus, Robert Codman; Juno, W. O. Edmands; Venus, H. Hardon; Father Anchises, F. C. Woodbury. "All the collegians evinced careful training, and the opera was enthusiastically received," says the New York Tribune. The Herald says: "Altogether...