Word: pritchards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET? Peter B. Kyne ? Cosmopolitan ($2.00). Dan Pritchard was a young California business man and two women were in love with him. One was Tamea, South Sea Island Princess; the other, Maisie Morrison, good and clean and well-bred. Poor Tamea! Even though she was Pritchard's ward, she could not quite click in society?and knew it. So, after bearing a child to Pritchard that he never knew about, she died gracefully of consumption, a la Camille?and left Pritchard to eat his cake and have it too by marrying Maisie, one surmises...
...fortune of Paul Kruger, one-time President of the Transvaal, has been exhumed, according to reports from Cape Town. A young man by the name of Pritchard says that he has located the spot where the treasure was buried in the Sable game reserve, North Transvaal. Mounted police have been despatched to the scene to keep law and order...
...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 to Judy, was a distinct success. Master Abbott contributed one of the finest bits of comedy as Freddie Perkins, the mischievous youngster at the orphan home. Forced and unnatural acting on the part of other children and Mrs. Lippett, the matron...
Other entertainers were Frances Pritchard in "The Dance Duel"; Miss Venita Gould in some clever "Impressions" of various stage stars; Rockwell and Fox, two naturally humorous comedians, "Navigating the Ocean of Nonsense"; and the Van Celles in dexterous "Foot Feats...