Word: lovers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Cheer up, thou doleful lover...
...serious opera. Her Clairette, Duchesse, and Boulotte are marked by a cleverness and finish which many more serious impersonations lack; in the last two roles, she has all the traditions of the diva Schneider. M. Capoul sings and acts like the perfect artist he is, - excellent as the lover Ange Pitou, Marasquin, or Piquillo, and equally so, in a widely different part, Falsanappa, the chief of brigands. Mlle. Angele has great beauty, a fair voice, and is an agreeable actress...
...beside a tall, fine-looking Harvard student, whose head towered up so high that it was unnoticed by the maiden. Her thoughts, indeed, were running upon pickpockets; and the probability that even she might be robbed of her small sum and the locket that contained the picture of her lover led her to thrust her hand hastily into her pocket to secure her purse. Horror! she finds a hand already there. Surely it is the hand of a thief. Grasping it bravely and holding it fast, she looked up for the owner, and was surprised to find that the villain...
...wonder if her lover...
...song in the prison scene was received with great applause. Mr. Bowen as the Princess found rather small scope for his talents, but gave the "Oxygen" song, "Go Away," with good effect, and was loudly applauded. Messrs. Urquhart and Sheafe, as the gold-spinning maid and her princely lover, acted and sang their parts to the satisfaction of the audience, Mr. Sheafe's serenade in the second act being particularly good. Mr. Cowdin's song, "Awfully Clevah," was well received. The part of the dwarf, Rumplestiltskin, was played by the by-no-means dwarfish Mr. Donaldson...