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Dates: during 1880-1880
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PARK THEATRE. - 7.45 P.M.; Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday at 2. To-night and to-morrow are given the last performances of Sol Smith Russell's "Edgewood Folks," in which he has made a great hit as Tom Dilloway. The piece is full of good situations, and is amusing throughout. Monday, 18th, Mr. Joseph Jefferson opens with a strong company in "The Rivals." There can be no doubt that his Bob Acres will be very good...
...place during this month. The river is of course too narrow for more than two crews to row abreast, so, instead of such a race as our class races last Saturday, they are always "bumping races," as every one who remembers the account of the exciting contest described in "Tom Brown" will recall. The boats are placed in line, - the last a little above Iffley, - with a certain distance between them; at the signal, all start off, each trying to "bump" the boat ahead, before reaching the finish, which is just below Folly Bridge. A bumped boat is sent...
...Tom Tough, one of your silent...
...WELL, Tom, the Carnival is done...
...secret of it, so perhaps you'd like to hear how he goes on. His favorite way is to go to the drawer where he keeps his treasures, and bring out some decayed peony or number eight glove, and then to fall into a rhapsody over it. "This glove, Tom, was Minnie's. I met her that summer I spent at the seaside. She was my beau-ideal...