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...cast of the opera employs for the first time the united strength of the entire company. The two prima donnas, Miss Lane and Miss Mason alternate in the role of Marguerite-Gounod's music being too great a tax on any one voice for eight performances. Mr. Wm. Wolff has the part of Mephistopheles, which is entirely suited to his magnificent voice. Mephisto is a new role for Mr. Wolff. The public has seen him in roles of almost every description since the opening of the opera season...
...summer season of comic opera at the Castle Square Theatre began last evening in the most agreeable of comic operas, "The Beggar Student." This is one of a series of light operas which will furnish entertainment during the summer. Miss Eissing, the prima donna, will be well remembered in "Girofle-Girofla," "Ali Baba," and "Sinbad." Miss Mulle-Bell, Miss Gaillard, Miss Rissi, Mr. Wolff, Mr. Seamans, Mr. McWade and Mr. Edgar Seamans, are all comic opera artists of more or less fame...
...Lothrop '95; Vera, F. Duffield '96; Paralos, J. D. Parker '96. Sloops - Eleanor, A. Whiteside, Jr., '95; Sequin, G. P. Scott '96; Liris, L. C. Tuckerman '97; Rat, L. B. Valentine '97. Jib and mainsails - Kid, W. R. Peabody '95; Marjorie, W. McKittrick '96; Prima, F. N. Balch '96; Raccoon, J. L. Stackpole, Jr., '95; Leitrim, T. J. Manahan '96; - , C. F. Lyman '96. Catboats - Calypso, George Derby '96; Pooh Pooh, J. C. Fairchild '96; Tycoon, J. L. Stackpole, Jr., '95; In It, R. B. Williams '96; Algol, J. R. Bullard '96; - , J. Sargent, Jr., '95. Steam yacht - Cora...
VERY few Harvard men who have heard Margaret Reid, the prima donna of the Bostonians in their new opera "The Maid of Plymouth," know that she is the wife of Harold Swain, Harvard '88. Swain was a prominent all round athlete and was one of the ten men who held the record for strength tests. Miss Reid will be none the less popular with Harvard men on account of being Mrs. Swain...
...their seamanship from the Italians is plain from the word mizzenmast (la mezzana), and the order avast! from basta! That the English taught the Italians to build railroads the traveller is informed when he hears il treno in Tuscany, and reads the word waggons in Naples,- i waggons-della prima classe. In the same way the word