Word: wife
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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GLOBE THEATRE.- Mrs. Langtry in "A Wife's Peril...
GLOBE THEATRE.- Mrs. Langtry in "A Wife's Peril...
...place. The play is performed exclusively by students of the American Academy of Dramatic Art, and yesterday afternoon they reflected much credit upon their school by performing difficult parts of the tragedy with great carefulness and impressiveness. Agamemnon, on his return from Troy, had been murdered by his wife, and her paramour. Orestes, son of Agamemnon, then a child, had been rescued from the clutches of his father's murderers by his sister Electra, and sent into Phocis. Eight years later he returns to take vengeance for his father's death, and by the aid of the god Apollo, succeeds...
...number. John Fiske contributes a paper on "Ticonderoga, Bennington and Oriskany," and Frank G. Cook, one on "Some Colonial Lawyers and their Work." Treating in more recent events is an article entitled "Personal Reminisences of William H. Seward," by his private secretary, Samuel J. Barrows, and his wife, Isabel C. Barrows. The article consists of a number of reminiscences told of a very interesting manner. Light fiction is represented by Elizabeth Bellamy with the first part of a Negro story called "Hannah Callmis Jin." There are also two thoughtful essays, the first on "Simplicity," by Charles Dudley Warner...
Signora Castroni, wife of the fencing master at the gymnasium, is said to have challenged the fencing master of the Narragansett Boat Club to a contest with broadsword, rapier or dagger...