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...battle-cry "California", "the last syllable of which he pronounced in a peculiar way"; Amos B. Alcott, advised to drink milk to make his transcendentalism less foggy; farmers, slave holders, Abolitionists, preachers, pale brides, dark chivalrous gentlemen, all brought strangely back in the letters of this little old maid, out of a dead world, out of a lost time...
After having seen her play in succession an old maid, a stenographer, and a chorus girl and interpret each part admirably. I cannot fall to give her due credit as an actress of merit. In "The Gold Diggers" it is she who carries the house with her. When she is off the stage the play is good, but when she is on the stage the play is excellent. For comedy parts there are few better in New York, let alone Boston...
Ralph P. Merritt, President of the Sun Maid Raisin Growers; Berkeley, Calif...
...James to restore the Stuarts and to make Master Ormerod "my Lord Duke of Jedburgh, Marquis of Cobbielaw, Earl and Baron Broomfield." Unfortunately, Master Ormerod has no stomach for piracy, cares nought for dukedoms and is thoroughly incensed at the idea of bringing aboard a pirate ship an innocent maid, the daughter of an Irish colonel who is a follower of King James and who helps to set the trap for the treasure ship. But Murray has his way. The Santissima Trinidad, laden to the waterline with bullion, falls victim to the pirates off Hispaniola. From its deck, Master Ormerod...
Promptly the pious Duchess falls in love with the professor. Through a misarrangement of rendezvous, the second act curtain finds her in the darkened living room?and in the arms of her butler. Meanwhile the maid of the household and the daughter fall in love with the same Professor. Through a second misarrangement, the maid entertains the daughter's visiting fiance while the daughter wanders through the gardens learning other things but literature from her Professor...