Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...World" is visiting Boston this week in company with "Aunt Jack." "A Man of the World" is a clever little character-study which serves to put those of the audience who are not diners-out and constantly not late-comers in good humor for the larger part of the evening, "Aunt Jack." This latter play has been given in Boston so recently that comment is scarcely necessary...
...first fiction of the number, "How We Routed the Ghosts," is, as its title indicates, a modern ghost story, and a local one at that. The plot of the tale is very slender, the language is at times ill chosen and the humor is so excessively fine as to be almost imperceptible...
...Globe the week in which the natal day of the worshipful St. Patrick is celebrated. Though Mr. Murphy does not occupy a place in the category of Irish saints, yet there are few actors dearer to the sons of Erin and the theatre-going public in general. The humor of Mr. Murphy's parts in "Shaun Rhue" and "Kerry Gow" is as delightfully dry as an average English Y lecture, and the remembrance of an evening passed in his company is an oasis in the CRIMSON editor's desert of toil...
Stuart Robson, the famous comedian, will return to the Tremont Tremont Theatre this evening in the "Henrietta." Besides the high standing of Mr. Robson, the Henrietta is a play which has aroused a high degree of interest wherever produced. In this comedy Mr. Howard has blended stocks, sentiment and humor with rare skill. The play is a satire brightly and wittily written, which possesses a serious vein for effective dramatic interest. For the second and last week Mr. Robson will offer his new comedy, "Is Marriage a Failure?" a query he will most amusingly answer...
...collection of papers made by G. Q. Colton, his brother. These have appeared from time to time in newspapers and magazines; and the preface to the book states that they have greatly delighted his relatives and friends. It also intimates that there is a fine vein of humor running through some of the sketches. The reader who wishes to be fully in touch with the book must be sure not to omit the preface. The most humorous thing to one who had not been prepared for the wit of the book by its introduction would probably be the novelty...