Word: spinsterism
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...play opens at a hotel in Switzerland with the arrival of a party of Americans consisting of the wealthy Mr. Grumble, his spinster sister, Maria, his daughter Marjorie, and their maid, Arethusa. Mr. Grumble has brought his daughter to Switzerland to break off her engagement with Philip Hathaway, a young Englishman who has been going through college in America. Grumble is very eager to secure a titled son-in-law and is now on the search...
...Pipp. W. H. Taylor '01 makes up well as Bessie Bullett; the heroine of the play. He had a natural, graceful manner. The most important female character, next to Miss Bullett, is Miss Pipp, the Dean of Vassar. A. W. Hollis '00 takes the part of an elderly spinster very cleverly; his love-making with the gruff old Major Bullett is most ludicrous...
Miles and Thompson have just published the musical score of the Hasty Pudding play, "Hamlet or The Sport, the Spook and the Spinster" by P. G. Atherton '93 and E. H. Abbott '93. The book is attractively gotten up and is sure to find favor not only with those who have sung the music or heard it sung, but also with others who enjoy the spontaneity and spirit of college songs...
...third and last performance of "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark or The Sport, The Spook and The Spinster" will be given at the Pudding Club House tonight at 8.30. This performance is for the benefit of the 'Varsity Crew and every ticket will be so much toward defraying the expenses at New London. A few tickets are on sale at Thurston...
...theatrical critics. The success in Boston has been equally encouraging. These three Cambridge performances will afford a last chance to see the famous play of "Hamlet" in a nineteenth century parody. It may not be an aid to men in English 2, but "The Sport, The Spook, and The Spinster" is certainly up to the average of Pudding shows and well worth seeing...