Word: teaser
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Between the acts at the St. James Theatre last night--where the Boston Stock Company is playing "The Teaser", a comedy in four acts--we lost our door check. However, the play was well worth the price of a second admission. For, with a cast of newly assembled actors and with a play unknown to Boston theatre-goers, the management of the St. James has done itself proud. Despite the fact that "The Teaser" is strangely reminiscent of "Lady Windemere's Fan" and has few new situations we liked it. The plot deals with the arrival in the Wyndham home...
...heard of that bitin' lamb some of them farmers 'round New Haven 's got. They say he's a teaser; bite right thro' a man's coat and think nothin' 't all of it. Barnum's trying to git him, and if his circus comes our way, I'm goin' to see that ere lamb or bust. Here comes that cussed slow clerk...