Word: mirth
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Whose vibrant voice in mirth or sadness rang...
...Chorus Girl" at the Boston Museum. The fact that this, the latest farcical comic opera, is from the pen of a Harvard man, Mr. Emerson Cook '93, gives a particular and special interest to the event. "The Chorus Girl" itself is unambitiously announced as "a two act combination of mirth, melody and nonsense" in which brisk, breezy dialogue, jingly "catchy" and reminiscent music are the chief elements. A star cast and a well balanced chorus are calculated to bring out all the good points of the production. Special rates are accorded to college men at Thurston's on presentation...
...another week the audiences at the Columbia, where the rollicking comedy "The New Boy" is being presented will have every night three hours of shaking laughter over this jolly play. Ever since the opening night the theatre has been crowded and the constant re-echo of vociferous mirth and the general verdict of Boston coincides with that of New York that there is more amusing material in "The New Boy" than in any comedy presented here for years. The action is lively and the comical situations follow each other as fast as professional foot racers. There is ginger...
...newspapers; or some one comes in and tells one of them a story in plain hearing,-a good story maybe, but not appropriate to the paper; or one of them picks up a blue book after its writer has gone out and reads it and shakes with ill-suppressed mirth thereat. This last is maddening even if it is not your book and you are not supposed to be looking at the reader...
...Rolfe and Mr. Patterson were good though their voices at times provoked a little mirth. Finally, Mr. Tisdale made a dainty soubrette...