Word: storm
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...MIKADO" at the Castle Square Theatre has taken Boston by storm. On the opening night, at 7.50 o'clock, there was a line of ticket purchasers that stretched from the north box office window around the corner and as far as the stage door on Chandler street. Many have been turned away this week, the house being unable to accommodate all who wanted to see this presentation of Gilbert and Sullivan's masterpiece. A better production of "The Mikado" was never given in Boston, and of the 22 operas produced by the Castle Square company, none has been more merry...
Among the passengers lost on the illfated steamer Colima, which recently went down in a storm off the Pacific coast was Professor Harold Whiting, a graduate of Harvard of the class of 1877, who with his wife and four children was on his way to New York. He had just resigned from his position as Associate Professor of Physics at the University of California, and intended to carry on private study in Cambridge...
...HAVEN, CONN., June 3. - A storm this afternoon on prevented the final match in the tennis tournament for the New England championship between Howland and Chace. After the rain a court was scraped and play began. It was a battle royal. Howland smashed well at the net and worked the cross-court to advantage. Chace was steady and used a beautiful Lawford. Howland missed easy returns, but played an aggressive game. Chace won the first set, 6-4. He started in to win the next and had the score 3-1, when Howland rallied. Howland took five straight games...
...Deutscher Verein held its regular meeting last night at the D. U. rooms. The president, F. von Briesen, read a few selections from German poets, and a short story, "Spate Rosen," by Theodore Storm...
...HUGHES,51 Perkins Hall."Entre Nous" says in Wednesday's Boston Herald: "That Amazon march in the last act of "The Beggar Student" at the Castle Square Theatre is one of agreeable surprise. The admirable marching of these pretty girls really takes one by storm. "She-who-is-to-be-Obeyed" holds her head up like an antelope, and is quite as agile as that beautiful animal. It was observed on the opening night that one of these fair warriors looked like a certain Boston beauty who has achieved some distinction by her capture of foreign celebrities to ornament...