Word: wister
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Spanish Drinking Song," words by T. B. Aldrich, music by Owen Wister, will probably be given by the Glee Club at the next concert...
...recent performance of "Dido and Aeneas," (by Owen Wister, '82,) in New York, by the Hasty Puddings, was a great success. The cast was as follows: Dido, E. H. Pendleton, Jr.; Anna, J. S. Webb; Tyria, J. E. Weld; Aeneas, ("the only original sentimental tramp and impoverished hero"), E. J. Wendell; Achates, ("the original Me-Too and one of the 306"), H. G. Chapin, Jr.; the B'hoy Ascanius, ("the only original infant prodigy"), R. D. Sears; Palinurus, A. Matthews; the Butler Punicus, Robert Codman; Juno, W. O. Edmands; Venus, H. Hardon; Father Anchises, F. C. Woodbury. "All the collegians...
...will produce the play "Dido and Aeneas," by Owen Wister, at their theatricals. There is some talk of giving the play two nights in Philadelphia...
...Owen Wister, '82, contributes a short poem, "Beethoven," to the Atlantic Monthly for February...
Chorister: Burton, 71; Wister, 47; Chapin, 10; Tuckerman, 3 (having withdrawn on previous ballot). Burton elected...