Word: tells
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first Theatrical Entertainment for the benefit of the Harvard Boat Club took place at Horticultural Hall last evening. The house was crowded with a most enthusiastic and appreciative audience. The programme consisted of a comedietta, entitled "A Happy Pair," and the burlesque, "William Tell with a Vengeance." Messrs. Bowditch and Shaw, '75, took part in the comedietta, and rendered the witty and sparkling dialogue with unusual vivacity and naturalness. The abrupt change of manner, in both roles, was particularly well done; and the acting of both gentlemen was accompanied with remarkable ease of manner...
...meant to be. Where all was so excellent, it is difficult to select any particular feature for praise. Mr. Wetmore's Sarnem was, in the line of the highest of tragedy, simply perfect. Mr. Hooper was most imposing as Gesler; and Mr. Dumaresq a most graceful young Tell. The bear performed with wonderful zoological accuracy, his conception of the part being most artistic. In fine, from the first chorus to the tragic denouement, the audience was in a continuous ripple of laughter, with frequent outbursts into a roar...
...theatricals in aid of the Boat Club will take place in Boston at Horticultural Hall on Thursday and Friday evenings, April 8 and 9, and on Saturday afternoon, April 10. The performance on Thursday will consist of the burlesque of "William Tell," preceded by the farce entitled "A Happy Pair." Two farces, "Which is Which?" and "One too Many for Him," will be presented on Friday, and they will be followed by a Negro Interlude. On Saturday afternoon "William Tell," and the farce "A Happy Pair," will be repeated...
...listen to the learned discourses of that august body, - though he do any or all of these, the chances are ten to one he will never once meet with that strange creature, the literary butterfly. Yet it is not a rara avis of which I speak; nor do I tell quaint fables of learned animals of the olden time; for even now, here in our midst, several species of this animal are found. To speak scientifically, literary butterflies are bipeds, of the genus Homo. Their bodies are regularly shaped and their wings, though formed of thin tissues of imagination, often...
...interesting places that I visited; that feat has been eloquently achieved by the before-mentioned guide-book. It is only of their influence on my character that I mean to speak. I had always been lukewarm on the subject of the fighting and bleeding of my grandsires. To tell the truth, it is said that one of my numerous grandsires (how they multiply in three generations: it beats Malthus!) fought on the wrong side and had a commission from his majesty King George. But when I see the very identical earthworks thrown up by the Americans, and the spot where...