Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...mashful as possible. Arriving at the house, I rang; the door was quickly opened by a little girl, who, on seeing me, ran through the hall shouting, "Here he is, at last." Surprised at such a reception, I hesitated, thinking it some deep-laid plot to entrap me, but finally I entered. In a moment an elderly lady came rushing downstairs, and in one breath exclaimed, "So you are the doctor, are you? Well, come right up, for Rose is very sick." The plot thickens, I thought; but I was bound to continue, whatever the consequences might...
BOSTON THEATRE. - 8 P.M.; Matinee, Saturday at 2. To-night and to-morrow's matinee will be the last performance of the Ideal Opera Company in "The Prince of Palermo." The music of this piece is charming, the plot is very amusing, and both singing and acting are capital. On Monday, Daly's adaptation, "An Arabian Night, or Haroun Al Raschid and his Mother-in-Law," will be given for the first time in Boston...
GLOBE THEATRE. - 8 P.M.; Matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2. "Mother and Daughter," an adaptation of the usual type of French melodrama, will be given to-night and to-morrow. The plot turns upon the contest between the mother (Miss Prescott) and her step-daughter (Miss Wainwright) for the affections of Fernand, the former lover of the mother. Louis James acts the part of Fernand very well. Next week, Tony Pastor's new Burlesque Company. May 31, Birch and Backus' San Francisco Minstrels, for one week...
PARK THEATRE. - 8 P.M.; Matinee Saturday at 2. "French Flats" is very amusing as it is acted by the excellent Union Square Company. There can hardly be said to be any plot to the piece; it consists mainly of a rapid succession of unpleasant situations, in which M. Blondeau finds himself on the different floors of the hotel that he has bought, intending to let the floors which he does not occupy. Next week is the last of the engagement of this company...
PARK THEATRE. - 7.45 P. M., Matinee Saturday at 1.45. On Monday, the Union Square Company began playing Mr. Edgar Fawcett's "False Friend," The plot depends on the attempt of Lucien Gleyre (Mr. Thorne) to pass himself off as Cuthbert Fielding (Mr. Courtaine), who is supposed to be dead. The dramatic interest is very great, and well sustained, although the materials are by no means new. The acting is, throughout, excellent, as is to be expected from this company. "French Flats," a very amusing piece, adapted from "Les Locataires de M. Blondeau," is in preparation...