Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...best pieces in the current number of the Advocate are the stories, of which there are several well worth mentioning. "Ruth," by J. A. Graydon '01, is the third of a series of Irish folk tales, which the writer is contributing to the Advocate. The scene of the story is Rosselea, and the characters are a Catholic priest and a family of peasants. There is less plot and characterization in "Ruth," than in either of the two previous tales; but the story is clear, vigorous and wholesome. Two lovers quarrel and separate, but are again joined at a crisis...
Perhaps the most popular numbers of the evening were those given by Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith and Miss Ruth McEnery Stuart. The former is well known as the author of "Colonel Carter of Cartersville" and other delightful sketches of Southern life. He read two of the selections from "Colonel Carter" in a truly charming vein, capturing his audience completely. Miss Stuart also read one of her sketches of Southern life-"Maria's Mo'nin'." The sketch itself runs in a vein of contagious humor, and Miss Stuart read it in a manner calculated to bring out all there...
...Maria's Mo'nin'-Ruth McEnery Stuart...
...author's reading is to be given in Sanders Theatre on the evening of April 28 for the benefit of a Radcliffe scholarship fund. The authors who will read from their own works are F. Hopkinson Smith, Edward Everett Hale, D. D., George W. Cable, Ruth McEnery Stuart, Louise Chandler Monlton, Anna Eichberg King, Herbert D. Ward, Louise Imogen Guiney, Mary E. Wilkins and Charles Follen Adams. Thomas Bailey Aldrich and Alice Brown will also be present. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe will preside. Reserved seats, $1.00, may be obtained at Sever's and at Amee...
...cast will be as follows: Richard, a Pirate Chief, J. K. Murray and W. H. Clarke; Samuel, his Lieutenant, John Reed; Frederic, a pirate apprentice, Edgar Temple; Maj. Gen. S anley, Oscar Girard; Edward, Sergt. of Police, Lindsey Morison; Mabel, Gen. Stanley's daughter, Clara Lane and Laura Millard; Ruth, a piratical maid of all work, Rose Leighton...