Word: band
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Frederic Clay; the libretto, by Mr. Gilbert, is clever, as we expect everything from his pen to be. The romantic Princess Toto is afflicted with a complete want of memory; this leads to many curious complications, when she successively runs away with a party of bandits and a band of Indians, and is pursued by Prince Doro and by Caramel, both aspirants to her hand. Miss Braham's acting as the Princess is good; her singing not always so. Mr. Cambell's Doro and Mr. Montgomery's King Portico are very good. Some of the choruses are very effectively rendered...
...thirty thousand volumes that appear every year, the oddest and queerest is the Examination Book, - that book in which the student exhibits his little penny-whistle, and tries to persuade the instructor that it is a full brass band...