Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Though since the days of the "Merry Widow" the imported musical comedy has ceased to be a novelty, no composer has been able to surpass Lehar's first success. The show now at the Tremont is distinguished by the same graceful adaptations of Hungarian folksongs, and is presented by a east rarely equalled for appearance and talent. As the story goes, Zorika, a nobleman's daughter betrothed to a man of her own class, has sudden hankering toward a return to nature, so that she agrees to elope with Joszi, a Gypsy violinist. She is, however, prevailed upon...
...story of the play deals with Roister Doister, a silly gallant, made to believe that he loves a young widow, Dame Custance, who is betrothed to a merchant named Goodlucke. Egged on by Merygreeke, a parasite, Roister Doister sends letters and tokens to his beloved who returns them and beats her servants for receiving them. On being openly scoffed at by the widow, Roister Doister determines to avenge himself by tearing down her house. In the meanwhile, Sym Suresby, Goodlucke's servant, hears of Roister Doister's wooing and warns his master of Custance's apparent infidelity. The widow summons...
...native elements in the English drama. The play follows the "Miles Gloriosus", of Plautus, but interprets the characters in the vein of Elizabethan comedy. The plot of the story centres about a town gallant who is made to believe that he is in love with a fascinating young widow. The climax comes with his disillusionment...
...very long while since Blanche Bates has appeared here in a play that remotely approached comedy. But last night found her at the Hollis in a part that is all comedy and of a very light and pleasant sort. Avery Hopwood wrote "Nobody's Widow" and David Belasco put it on the stage. Consequently it is very difficult to say who is the more responsible for the grace and brightness of dialogue and atmosphere that almost make the play seem high comedy instead of very superior farce. It has little body, to be sure, but it has a light touch...
Harvard University received a bequest of $60,000 by the will of Mrs. William O. Moseley, widow of the late William. Oxnard Moseley '69, of New-buryport. Mrs. Moseley's will was probated on December 22, and at that time the bequest was made public. The money is to be used to endow two scholarships in the Medical School. These scholarships, which will be presented annually, will permit students of slight experience in medicine to enjoy the privileges of foreign medical teaching...