Word: missed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Miss Richland, L. de F. Smith...
...largely through the advice of Professor Baker that the society decided to undertake this play; and thanks are due both to him and to Mr. Hayes for their valuable assistance at recent rehearsals. The great improvement in the leading characters, especially Honeywood, Lofty, Miss Richland, and Mrs. Croaker, is due largely to their help...
...before. The stage setting is exceedingly harmonious and beautiful, and the costumes of surprising excellence. The performance as a whole is far ahead of many other productions by more pretentious grand opera singers in the past. The laurels of the performance crown the new stars, Mlle. Fatmah Diard and Miss Nina Bertini Humphrys, who has come on from New York to join the company. Mlle. Diard was received with remarkable demonstrations of enthusiasm Monday night and is established a favorite already. Miss Humphrys is petite, demure and very charming. She is the product of the best foreign schools...
...very large audience listened to Mr. Copeland's lecture last evening on Mr. Hardy, Mr. Kipling, Miss Jewett, Miss Wilkins and other writers of the Short Story. The lecturer began with a few words upon the theory of this form of literary art. The conte, as the French call it, the short story, as we call it, has not flourished and does not flourish in England. English writers too often make their tales seem like chapters from a three volume novel, or at least like awkward attempts at the novellete. They should, on the contrary, restrict the time...
...Nelson Page and Mr. Joel Chandler Harris are well known southerners, and Mr. Harding Davis has made a national reputation for himself which is perhaps a little in excess of his merits. "Gallegher" is on the whole his best achievement, and his early stories are in general his best. Miss Jewett and Miss Wilkins are in Mr. Copeland's opinion at the top of American writers of the short story. Miss Wilkins is undoubtedly the more dramatic of the two, but equally without doubt Miss Jewett writes a better style and gives a larger, wiser, truer view of New England...