Word: tavern
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...story of the play deals with the adventures of Bess Bridges, a tavernmaid at the Castle Tavern, Plymouth; and Spencer, a gallant, with whom she has fallen in love. Carrol, another gallant, insults Bess, for which Spencer slays him in a duel. For this he is obliged to flee from Plymouth. At night Spencer comes to the tavern to say farewell to Bess. He bids her go to the Windmill Tavern which he owns at Foy, and departs for Fayal with his friend Captain Goodlack. Bess goes to Foy and acts as mistress of the tavern. Among the gallants whom...
Friday, June 10.--Business meeting at the Hollenden at 10 o'clock; luncheon at the Tavern Club, 12 to 2 o'clock; business meeting at the Hollenden at 2.30 o'clock; dinner at the Euclid Club at 6.30 o'clock; smoker at the Euclid Club at 7.30 o'clock...
...proof against any sort of performance; but it needed relatively few of these defences in the representation that the members of the Deutscher Verein accomplished last night. They had, too, the aid of a part of the Pierian Sodality for a rather overdressed orchestra in the scenes in the tavern garden, and of a choir from the Boston Turn Verein to sing German songs, as sentimental as the play, between the acts. Moreover, if circumstances compelled the German ambassador to deny the performance the honor of his presence, a numerous audience applauded it heartily because it understood...
Four or five of the parts, like Mr. Layman's old tutor, Juettner, Mr. Perrin's waiter translated from inn to court, Mrs. Barnes-Hochberg's Kaethie of the tavern, and in a little less degree Mr. Schurig's mincing and mealy-mouthed chamberlain, were admirably taken. The players had sense of character, carried it to the audience, and acted generally with freedom alike from self-consciousness and what in some instances was an acquired speech. With Mr. Layman's Juettner, indeed, illusion never flagged and it was the true illusion of the old man's sentiment. Skillful...