Word: kate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mrs. George C. Riggs("Kate Douglas Widdin"), 63, author, at Harrow, England following an operation. She wrote The Birds Christmas Carol, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, The Old Peabody...
...private law offices, they are scattered everywhere. When the first convention assembles at Minneapolis, it will have for President Miss Emilie M. Bullowa, of the firm of Bullowa & Bullowa, New York (the rest of the firm being her two brothers), an authority on admiralty law, and for Vice Presidents, Kate Pier Mclntosh, of Milwaukee, and Judge Florence E. Allen, of Cleveland...
...collection also includes a "Holiday Grammar" by George Cruikshand, a series of twenty-eight quaint illustrations of Twelfth Night costumes and a number of cards and calendars by Kate Greenaway...
...present production is in general up to the level of its other revivals at the hands of the Jewett Company; in some respects it is better, and in a few instances distinctly worse. The parts are on the whole effectively cast--"Kate" was well played by Miss Willard, while Mr. Clive, Mr. Kingsford and Mr. Joy took their old parts with their usual skill. Miss Standing as "Constance Neville" had a hard role and was not always quite at ease...
...farce these old plays wherever possible it was pleasing to find that Mr. Jewett had to some little extent got away from the beaten path and induced his actors to play the piece as high comedy, where for the most part it properly belongs. The third act, where Kate "stoops to conquer" was rendered with a most commendable grace and sureness. Percy Foster's "Mr. Hardcastle" was quite free from extravagance; "Tony Lumpkin" (Mr. Clive) and even boisterous "Diggory" (Mr. Johnston) were toned down to the proper key. "Mrs. Hardcastle" was exceptionally well played by Miss Esden. Unfortunately the performance...