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...NIGHT, March 7, there will be given some theatricals in Liberty Hall, at New Bedford, Mass, by a number of Harvard students. The programme consists of the farce "A Turkish Bath," and the popular burlesque" Lurline...
...dissatisfied with the popular art productions which disfigure so many walls, in the shape of decidedly "unpleasant" females in most unadvisable attitudes, - now clinging or "wopsing" about a cross, and now simply "gawking" at vacuity, - may not at first quite sympathize with these admirable fac-similes. The above-mentioned females, currently called Faith, Charity, Hope, or Liberty, often have a surface prettiness that must not be sought in a real work of art. Rembrandt and Durer never made pretty pictures, any more than Shakespeare wrote "nice" poetry...
...Rachel the Reaper" and "Ye Gentle Savage" are still popular at this favorite theatre. The management of the Museum seem always to have the faculty of giving to their plays as long and as successful a run as they desire...
...Bret Harte allude to Victoria Woodhull in his popular sketch of "Tennessee's Pardner...