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...Pudding Club Theatre--Graduates' Night, Friday, April 26, Saturday, April 27 and Monday, April 29. In Boston, at Copley Hall--Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 2, 3 and 4. The provisional cast is: King of Cantalusia, J. R. Miller. Count Marcana della Croca, his prime minister, F. R. DuBois. Nitro, chief of conspirators, H. Lyman. Kenyon Clark, his secretary, C. H. Whitney. Pat Sokum, Mike Sikkum, Sergeants of Police, -- R. Dexter. A Lunatic, R. E. Goodwin. His Keeper, I. W. Kendall. Trivia della Croca, the Counts' daughter, J. G. Forbes. Miss Ellany, her governess, L. White...
...tyrannous "Boss," Count della Croca; it is patrolled by a corrupt police force, and terrorized by a band of ruthless anarchists. These conspirators, incensed by one of the king's proclamations, decide to put an end to him. The assassin is chosen by lot, and turns out to be Nitro, the leader of the band. Meanwhile Della Croca, while attempting to coerce his daughter, Trivia, into a mercenary marriage, forces her by his violence to run away and join her lover, the secretary of the Dynamiters. These are confident of the success of their conspiracy. But the failure of Nitro...
...killed and nine persons injured by an explosion of nitro-glycerine in New York...
...must be because he wants to give the instructor opportunities to enlighten the rest of us. I know the fellow knows a good deal, for, when we were reading the other day about Hannibal's blasting rocks with fire and vinegar, he asked why he did not use nitro-glycerine...
...around; lamp-posts were thrust into the chimneys of dwelling-houses, and a pyramid of horse-cars five hundred feet in height was constructed, which, with all such drivers, conductors, and passengers as were so unfortunate as to be captured by the incarnate demons, was blown to atoms by nitro-glycerine...