Word: sphinx
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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TONIGHT begins the third week of what has proved the most successful comic opera produced in Boston for a good many years, Browne and Thompson's "The Sphinx," which is packing the commodious Tremont Theatre to the doors and creating a sensation seldom equalled in the regular season. The coolness of the Tremont is something unprecedented, the decorations unequalled, and the special features with which the management regales its patrons have all proved very successful. In the lobbies, between the acts, a beautiful Egyptian girl, Frommia, clad in the richest raiment of the East, dispenses from an Oriental booth Egyptian...
...Sphinx," the Hasty Pudding Play of '92, has been adapted for the professional stage, and its first public performance will be given at the Tremont Theatre tonight. The libretto is entirely different from the original, but the principal airs have been retained, and whatever changes have been made in the music have been made by the composer, L. S. Thompson '92. Tonight will be "Harvard night," and the theatre will be specially decorated for the occasion...
...illusions of the most aggravating and exciting sort, by curiosity. Now, it may be almost reprehensible in Mr. William Collier, and those who aid and abet him in this query, "Who is Jones?" Intellects have been shattered by questions of this sort and endeavors at their solution. The sphinx herself is much shattered after some 4,000 or more years of looking as if she wanted to ask some such question as (translated) "Who is (or was) Hetiogladus?" But fortunately Mr. William Collier will be at the Tremont Theatre next Monday night for a two week's engagement, and will...
...Proserpina" well maintained the high standard of the club, and showed itself worthy of taking its place with "Hamlet," "The Sphinx" and "Granada." The plot of the operetta has already been given at length in the CRIMSON, and needs no further mention beyond the statement that its originality and humor greatly amused and entertained the audience. The music was as usual light and pretty, and the libretto was cleverly written throughout, often being exceedingly witty. The whole play was well staged, the scenery being elaborate and the costumes bright and varied...
...Selection, "Sphinx," Thompson...