Word: oedipus
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...OEdipus Mr. George Riddle...
Attendant to OEdipus Mr. Alex. Corbett...
...sale of seats for "OEdipus Tyrannus" at the Globe, will begin tomorrow...
...have here? Is it alive? It is. Be Jawge, it is a Hawvawd Senyah, you know. Is he known by any other title? Yes-ah, he-ah is sometimes called a cultuahed gentleman-ah. Does he study Greek? I should-ah say that he did-ah. He pwayed in Oedipus-ah lawst yeah. What did he play? He pwayed the curtains up awnd down-ah. Joke ah! Ha-ha-ah? What makes him part his hair in the middle? Only a step-ah in the cawse of his development-ah. Development into what? Into womanhood-ah. Another joke...
...present engagement, that it is "gratifying" that his "labor of love is now to yield him substantial benefit, and that his histrionic abilities are coming to receive their just recognition." No one more sincerely wishes success to Mr. Riddle than does the Crimson; but in consenting to play oedipus with an English support before mixed audiences, we think he has made a grave mistake. After the accurate presentation last year, this plan is little more than a travesty, not at all to be desired by those of us who are proud of that first success. We think that Mr. Riddle...