Word: peddler
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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THIS is the second and last week of Pauline Hall's engagement in "Dorcas" at the Boston Museum. The original music by the eminent composer Max Hirschfeld, who personally conducts the orchestra, is sure to be appreciated. Miss Hall in her triple role of peddler, "mine host's wife," and Lady Honoria, never fails to elicit applause. Mr. C. B. Bradshaw as Lubin Mugby makes a most successful country bumpkin. The rest of the cast are well suited to the demands of the play...
...whose appearance again on the Boston stage is highly welcome. Dorcas is a very light, amusing, musical comedy. The story dwells upon the escapades of a young woman of title who resorts to strategem to satisfy herself of the character of a lordly lover. She disguises herself as a peddler boy, then as Dorcas, a village beauty and wife of an innkeeper, and finally as the daughter of an English Lord. In all these three characters Miss Hall appears to great advantage. Having the physique and pose which will set off any costume, there is peculiar interest attached...