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George Brown as the Vicar is particularly good in his opening ballad while his singing and acting are generally excellent. Alison Keith's Mrs. Partlett is a perfect characterization of the elderly pew-opener while Victoria Spurgeon as her daughter Constance is only competent. Stevens Garlick provides a perfect performance as the doddering, deaf old Notary...

Author: By James A. Sharaf, | Title: The Sorcerer | 4/25/1958 | See Source »

Young Bramah Pooter Bantam (his mother was a Partlett, they intermarried with the Woodcocks, and are really among our very nicest people) has gone to join his mamma at Cannes, where that estimable lady is trying the effects of the soft Mediterranean climate upon her too excitable American nerves. But let not the candid reader suppose that Bramah's entire summer will be passed in soothing the dear patient's fevered brow. No, he will push a leetle farther along the Riviera. The truth is, that a little pecuniary transaction took place on Pooter's departure from home, between himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINETY DEGREES IN THE SHADE.* | 6/13/1879 | See Source »

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