Word: incognitos
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Pauline Frederick plays the leading role in "The Mistress of Shenstone",--a picture full of surprises--at the Park Theatre. It is a story of the accidental death of her husband in the war, and the complications which result when, in seeking rest and change incognito at an inn in Cornwall, she falls in love with the man whose mistake killed her husband. The introduction of more confusing circumstances tangle events into an apparently hopeless situation, from which she is released with more than usual verisimilitude...
Upon considering the matter we are somewhat in doubt just which model Mr. Ford considers his pleasure car. The undergraduate body is bewildered; some of us never knew that the notorious "flivver" ever went under the incognito name of a pleasure car. It is baffling in the extreme. Ford owners deny that their car belongs to the class of pleasure vehicles; they admit that they have had service from the automobile, but never enjoyment. In short the consensus of opinion is that the Ford is not a pleasure car. Yet this afternoon an extra came out announcing that the Ford...
...first the British government looked askance at the army recreation centres which we were establishing," said Mr. Carter, "but we persevered and one day Mr. Asquith paid a visit incognito to a 'hut' at Aldershot. He was so much impressed that immediately upon his return to London he had a check drawn for $125,000--the first government contribution to the work...
...Loravia, a mountainous principality of Europe, and depicts the struggle for the throne between the twin princes Louis and Ferdinand. The first act is laid in the Grand Salon of the Pre Catalan restaurant in Paris. It is here that Prince Ferdinand, believed to be dead, discovers, while travelling incognito that his half-witted brother Louis is plotting to regain the throne from which his countrymen have banished him. Both princes lack the money wherewith to contest their rights. Prince Louis has an accomplice, Antonio Spinorelli, Grand Master of the International Brotherhood of Fists, who conceives the plan of marrying...
Arrived at the fair, Busy warns the Littlewits to beware of the "heathen," and all enter Ursula's booth to partake of pig. Justice Overdo enters, still preserving his incognito, and the extravagant Cokes begins to buy up all the toys and ginger-bread at the fair. He has his purse cut by Edgworth while Nightingale creates a diversion by ballad singing, and Justice Overdo, suspected of the theft, is given into custody. The Puritanical Busy then tries to seize Leatherhead's toys on the ground that they are "idols" which must be "torn down," and is arrested...