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Preceding the performance of the comedy itself, J. W. D. Seymour '17 will give a one-act farce, entitled, also, "The Lady Decides." The performers will sit as an audience to the skit, which will treat in a pleasant way the amusing side of Boston society...
...Skit, J. W. Feeney, H. F. Sullivan...
Besides the various booths, games, music, and dancing, special entertainments are held every afternoon and evening. The program for today includes dances by Miss Aleto, a minstrel skit by Messrs. Scott and Bayrd, an exhibition of fencing by Mrs. Cass's fencing girls, songs by Mr. Morse Wemple, and a play by the Colonial College Stock Company...
...McCormick's story, which struggles from time to time with a dialect only half digested from "The Tragedy of Nan," suffers less on that account than one might imagine. The last page has a genuine, if uncanny, power. Mr. Jacobs's dialogue, which is not melodrama, is an amusing skit on the political honor of our Mexican neighbors...
...course there are interpolations, but they are so few that they do not slow up the movement, and they are well worth doing. Perkins' accounts of baseball from the British and Italian points of view is almost Caseyan, and the society comedy skit and the movies act are both entertaining...