Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Malone has long been the manager of Daly's Theatre of London, which has been especially conspicuous in the production of musical comedies. Such fa- mous operas as "The Merry Widow," "The Waltz Dream," "The Country Girl," and the "Maid of the Mountains"--which holds the long run record in London--have been produced and played there...
...changers of the Rialto are to come to our relief and change our dollar bills into half-dollars and rain-checks, and when the student of Philosophy is perplexed in the future with the problem "Why change your wife?" he can solve this problem without the help of any Widow, by sitting in at the Harvard Square student's latest course...
...started by greeting a new sport, but we must close by greeting a new course. Alas! it has been our experience that this amusement has tuition fees. But then, no Widow is needed to drive home the lesson--"He who plays with fire will be burned...
...piece is given its Boston hearing. Among the principals may be mentioned Kenneth Douglass, Estelle Winwood, Lawrence Grossmith and Fritz Williams. "Too Many Husbands" has been hailed as the most brilliant bit of playwriting since Oscar Wilde's comedies. It treats humorously of the predicament of a young widow who marries a second time, only to learn, a year subsequently, that her first husband was not shot in the war as had been announced. His home-coming starts a series of situations said to be highly amusing. To begin with, husband number one does not know that his wife...