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Miss Frances Anderson gave a delightful interpretation of Judy Abbott, at first the pathetic little orphan of the John Grier Home and then the happy young college girl and authoress. The part of Daddy Long-Legs was portrayed by Mr. William Shelly Sullivan with a delicate touch of humor and kindness seldom attained in stock company productions. One of the finishing details of the play was added by Leonora Bradley, who acted the part of Mrs. Semple, the motherly old nurse, with unusual ability. Florence Burroughs as Miss Pritchard, the kindhearted old maid who is instrumental in bringing happiness...
...pushes the orphan away; and urges not others to feed the poor...
Anne is an orphan, left in the charge of two young men. One of them marries her, and the other, John Halliday, a sort of intellectual Major Dobbin, equally in love with her, must be content to worship from afar. Anne, as a bride of 17, is not willing to become prematurely a sedate matron; she starts out to live her life in her own sweet way. But finally, after she has had her share of trouble and excitement--after she has been separated from her husband and has lost her only child--come reconciliation and a humbling...
...mascot for them. The lad lived with them for three months in the trenches. At the time of the Italian retreat these Zouaves were ordered to Italy. The colonel took the boy back of the lines and left him with some sisters. These good women provided for the orphan for two months, and, being out of funds, they placed him in a school...
Members of the University who wish to contribute to the fund which Boston is going to present to Marshal Joffre for the orphan children of France should send their contributions to A. Beane '11, Phillips Brooks House, Cambridge. It has been considered advisable for the University to give its general contribution to increase the fund which is being raised throughout Greater Boston, rather than to make a separate gift to the French Marshal when he visit the University on Saturday. Those who have charge of the fund hope to raise at least $150,000 as a gift to express...