Word: monimia
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...walled, moat-bound Colonial Charles Town (named for the Restoration's merry monarch) in the Province of Carolina there came in 1733 a group of strolling players led by an efficient, talented actress remembered only as Monimia, the character she played for the eager Colonists in Otway's The Orphan, or The Unhappy Marriage. Interest in Monimia's muse was far greater than Charles Town's court house could accommodate, even at 40s. a head...
Hence when Monimia returned with her players in the winter of 1736, Charles Town had the brand new Dock Street Theatre waiting for her, first theatre building in America. The play she chose to open it was George Farquhar's bawdy Recruiting Officer, which fine-limbed ladies of the frank 18th Century theatre liked to play because it clothed them part of the time in the tight breeches of English soldiery...
Margaret Fell Lyon, leading lady of Charleston's Footlight Players, succeeded tall Monimia in the feminine lead of Silvia. Cousin Melinda was played by auburn-haired. 5 ft. 2 in. Alecia Rhett. whose ancestors attended the opening of the first Dock Street Theatre. An artist and a leader in the Footlight Players, pretty 21-year-old Alecia may contribute more than her family name to the film production of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind.* She has a contract (without wages) for a part in the forthcoming Hollywood production...
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