Word: misses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Next week will close the long and pleasant engagement at the Tremont Theatre of Miss Rosina Vokes and her capable company. This engagement has been the most successful the has played in Boston. It has been signalized by the production of two new plays which have proven of exceptional merit. Her departure will be a matter of regret to all lovers of the genial, bright and wholesome in stage offerings. During next week Miss Vokes will present two separate triple bills made up from the most interesting of her one-act plays. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday the bill will...
...fiction on the number begins with "The Cynical Miss Catherwaight." Her cynicism is not very prominent save in the title. The story begins well but modulates down into the dead commonplace. "Colonel Carter of Cartersvilie" is "niggery" but agreeable. "The Record of Virtue" is an interesting article of philanthropy working ignorantly. "A Pair of Old boys" by Maurice Thompson is excessively amusing. "Sister Dolorosa" is one of James Lane Allen's imaginings of gaunt Kentucky atmosphered mediaeval and European poetry. Stories by Joel Chandler Harris and Euzabeth Stuart Phelps complete the fiction...
Paul Jones.Agnes Huntington in "Paul Jones" began the last of her three weeks' engagement at the Hollis Street Theatre last evening. As the hero of the opera Miss Huntington is most successful, while the support given her by the remainder of the company gives general satisfaction. The opera is produced with the greatest care, and the groupings and stage settings are quite artistic. The success of Paul Jones the coming week is assured from its popularity during the last fortnight...
...Founder's Cup was shot for at the grounds of the club yesterday afternoon. MacKey '92, Pike '93, and Gould '91, tied with eleven birds each out of a possible fifteen. They also tied a second time, each getting four out of five. On the miss and out Gould and Pike both lost their birds but MacKay hit, and won the cup for the fourth time. The cup becomes the property of the man winning it eight times or four times in succession. The best score out of fifteen ligowskys wins...
...will be presented for the first time. This play is founded upon a veritable episode in the renowned French comedian's life. The title role is to be assumed by Felix Morris in which he will have a good opportunity to display his genius. "The Circus Rider" in which Miss Vokes is at her happiest and the "Rough Diamond" in which her most finished character impersonation is seen, complete the bill...