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...Boston, one Phineas Loring offered a reward of $50 for the best word to take the place of a "spinster," because he felt "convinced that many marriages are effected due to the odium attached to the words 'spinster' an 'old maid.'" The new word is to indicate a "condition of triumph rather than defeat," thereby forestalling such marriages "and so serving humanity...
...Betts, N. A., long a most facile portraitist, achieved the most coveted honor of the show, the Altman Prize of $1,000, with his Elizabeth Betts of Wortham, by whom hangs a tale. This lady was an ancestress of the artist, embalmed in the family archives as a "sad spinster of 21." She quarreled with her lover, who straightway went off to the wars. To regain his love, she made herself a most marvelous frock and went to call on his sister. Whether the strategem succeeded we are not told, but Mr. Betts, aided only by an old print...
...tragedy of starved lives and the futility of effort; told by Mr. Thurston all that is sordid is lost behind the glory of living and the joy that lies therein. Mary Throgmorton, the heroine, is a woman of twenty-seven or eight who has lived all her life a spinster with her spinster sisters, dominated by the memory of the puritanic virtue of her dead mother. Suddenly she comes to the realization that she has failed to live and that she has failed to find the true meaning of life. Virtue and modesty--for these two principles she had passed...
...direction of Professor Richard Ordynski are "The Florist, Shop" by Miss Winifred Hawkridge, "Toy Soldiers" by Miss Agnes Von Slyck and "Garafelia's Husband" by Miss Esther W. Bates. "The Florist Shop" is a laughable comedy of unusual merit, having for its central theme the fulfillment of a spinster's belated romance through the schemes of a pretty flower girl. "Toy Soldiers" is a "war play" written from a novel viewpoint and portraying the lighter side of the present European crisis in an amusing manner. In con- trast to the comedy of the other two plays "Garafelia's Husband...
...University quartet, repeated the success which they scored last year in "The Financier." Their duet "Springtime" was charmingly rendered as was "The Elfins," a solo by the former. L. M. Potter '08, the star actor of the evening, was irresistibly droll in his rendering of Maria Grumble, a ubiquitous spinster, and his burlesque, "I Just Can't Make my Face Behave," is the song hit of the show. The pony ballet always a feature of these plays, included many graceful and difficult dances. G. L. Yocum '07, the hero, with P. P. Marion '08 and H. G. Tomlin...