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Thomas Gainsborough was born in 1727 at Sudbury, in Suffolk. As a school boy he often played the truant to ramble through the country making sketches of the woods and fields. At the age of fourteen he was sent to London, where he was apprenticed to an engraver named Gravelot. He soon gave up this place and went to the artist Hayman, who must have been a bad master for so impulsive a lad as Gainsborough. At nineteen he returned home and had the good fortune to marry the beautiful and accomplished Margaret Burr...
...invitations were sent out by the committee to men actively engaged in volunteer work, and fourteen men attended. The party took the boat, the J. Putnam Bradlee, to the island, and on their arrival they were received by Superintendent Gerrish. They were conducted over the House of Industry, the Truant School, and the Hospital by Assistant-Superintendent Perkins, who explained to the men the working of the various branches of the institution. After the tour of inspection the visitors were the guests of Superintendent Gerrish at a little luncheon. The party returned to Boston at six o'clock...
...recent Larchmont Yacht Club regatta the pennant winners were the Gracie, Wave, Cornell, Zoe and Truant...
...Truant-like advancing...
...emotion, these are so few that the lady's weakness in those parts leaves but little impression on the mind. Her greatest success is achieved in the first scene with her husband, where she shows him the drawings, and in the fourth act, where she endeavors to recall his truant love. In these scenes her light-comedy powers have full scope, and we recognize them to be of high order. Her support was very good. Mr. Sheridan, as the wayward Stephen, made a part interesting which, in the hands of an inferior actor, would have been stupid if not laughable...