Word: mages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Featured were oldtime Hippodrome names and numbers, including: Comedian De Wolf Hopper (appearing as wizard, interlocutor, Mephistopheles, Chinese Mage); Tramp-Comedian Joe Jackson and his disintegrating bicycle; ballets (Tiller, Rasch, Lenora) ; clowns, skaters, dogs, an elephant. Many of the tunes were written by Bandman Sousa, including the blaring, brassy march " 'Tis the Eagle...
...Revolutionary Floridian of his tale is an indigo-planter and breeder of cochineal bugs, not a farmer of yams or tobacco; that his name is Gentian, not Brown or Black; that he is not so much a retired army surgeon with impeccable manners and exquisite vintages, as a mage of the sinister arts, whose oval study is done in blue-and-gold leather with a star-powdered dome and a secret moonwindow. It is characteristic that Dr. Gentian's wife is a burned-out Greek beauty and that their daughter Sparta has a dazzling net of golden hair, grey eyes...
...pleased to have done for the moment with their share in the production. The inane giggle that overcomes most actors whose parts call for an "exit laughing" is something that demands immediate attention in our theatre. Then, too, the entire company stole the Cardinal's fire-works in their mage of handkerchiefs. One would have thought that the entire court of Louis XIII was sorely afflicted with chronic catarrh if the abundance of lace handkerchiefs on and in hand Monday night was to be taken as a fair indication...