Word: rideau
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Miss Rosina Vokes' annual engagement in Boston began last night at the Tremont with a triple bill, consisting of the new lever de rideau "Percy Pendragon," "A Double Lesson," and "My Lord in Livery." In "Percy Pendragon" Felix Morris has an excellent opportunity for the exercise of his great ability in character delineation. "A Double Lesson" and "My Lord in Livery" are brimming over with merriment, and Miss Vokes has lost none of her inimitable charm...
...Sumichrast; "Lawn Tennis-on the present method of scoring," by Howard A. Taylor; "The English Race courses," by "Borderer;" "A Lesson in Brook Trouting," by Dr. G. M. Hyde; "The game of Lawnbowls," by James Hedley; "A new hand at the rod," by C. R. C.; "Bass Fishing on Rideau Lake," by J. W. Longley. But the article chiefly interesting to Harvard men is one by F. A. Stevenson, captain of the Yale crew in 1888, on "Yale and her Victories on the Water." The writer says much in favor of the Cook stroke, and describes its development from...