Word: xantippo
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...years prior to the war and all six plays proved financially successful. The first, Florence Lincoln's End of the Bridge ran nine weeks, then two weeks in Chicago, and was revived for two weeks in Boston the next year. The third, Frederick Ballard's Believe Me, Xantippo, ran 11 weeks, breaking all previous records for runs at the Castle Square and then moved to New York for 20 weeks in a production starring John Barrymore. After the war Oliver Morosco gave a similar award for two years, following which Richard Herndon established the Belmont Theater Prize on the same...
...Believe Me, Xantippo!", a melodramatic farce by Frederick Ballard, formerly a graduate student here, is the third of the plays to receive the prize offered by Mr. John Craig to dramatists of Harvard and Radcliffe, and the first to come from a Harvard writer. On Monday last it began an indefinite run at the Castle Square Theatre, Boston, presented by Mr. Craig and his stock company...
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