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Title: Shakspere to Sheridan; a book about the theatre of yesterday and to-day
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Thaler, Alwin, 1891-
Subjects: Theater — England History English drama — History and criticism Actors and actresses — England Theaters — England London
Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press [etc., etc.]
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ant, profitable playwright and laureate ofthe previous regime, had stored his eyes open whereas he was inFrance, and had launched the new Art Prospective inScenes to London some years earlier than General Monk pro-claimed the restoration of the Merry Monarch.^ Whenthat time got here, the new playwrights and managers didnot fail to keep in mind the scenic and operatic possibilitiesof the dramatic romance of pre-Restoration days. Dry-den, Howard, Crowne, and a host of different dramatistshastened (in Colley Gibbers phrase) to outdo the usualoutdoing of Beaumont and Fletcher and Heywood —and the managers, DAvenant and Killigrew, gladly pro-duced the new monstrosity — the heroic drama. But neither the heroic performs with all their fantastic present andsplendid rant, nor but the cleverest and merriest innuen-does of the sensible new Restoration comedy of manners,have been in a position to maintain their very own in opposition to the competitors of en-tertainments even much less akin to the previous drama. Many * His Siege oj Rhodes was first introduced in 1656.
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OLD LAMPS AND NEW 9 causes mixed to make the Restoration theatres far lessattractive to the basic public than these of the preced-ing period had been. In Shaksperes day, the Globe and theBlackfriars, the Fortune, the Swan, the Whitefriars, andthe Red Bull ^ — usually as many as half-a-dozen homes atthe similar time — loved a constant prosperity. Afterthe Restoration two theatres licensed by royal patent,Killigrews and DAvenants, divided between them amonopoly of the stage, and but they ceaselessly had butslender audiences. To search the causes at this pointwould take us too far afield. We shall meet them pres-ently, along with ample up to date proof —laments in prologues and epilogues, managers pleas toaudiences, and the like — to attest the lack of patronage.For the second the level is moderately to observe how themanagers sought to woo the fickle public. They did their finest — by offering novelty uponnovelty: music and dancers, pantomimes (spectacularsilent drama ^^r
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Title: Review of reviews and world’s work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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ted to itself the entiretraffic of North Mexico by the constructing of abranch line to Tampico, and by the buy ofthe Monterey Railway, which has its terminus inTampico. The harbor of Tampico is an importantone, and it’s predicted that this place will soonoutstrip Vera Cruz. The Central has establishedthe similar charges between Tampico and the metropolis ofMexico as the different roads ask for the shorterjourney from Vera Cruz to Mexico. The directline of the Central from Tampico to the metropolis ofMexico, which is now in course of of construc-tion, and which can in all probability be accomplished byJanuary, 1905, will in all chance produce agreat revolution in the commerce of Mexico,since it will likely be shorter than another connectionbetween Mexico and Vera Cruz. The National Railroad Company of Mexico,the majority of the inventory of which is held bythe Mexican Government, is now altering thenarrow gauge of its street into the standardgauge, and will directly be opened to visitors from LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH. 373
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MAP OF MEXICAN RAILROADS. Laredo to the metropolis of Mexico, thus securing that the end result of this competitors shall be aabout sixteen hours nearer reference to the pooling of the visitors of the two firms.United States than the Central. It is believed Other United States connections are projected. 374 THE AMERICAN -MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS. THE EVOLUTION OF A NEW GOSPEL. RUSSIA, in accordance to many, is the Nazarethof the nations from which cometh nogood factor. But, as the historical Nazareth pro-duced the Carpenter, the fashionable Nazareth hasproduced two males—one Christian, the otherfree-thinker—who agree in proclaiming, in ac-cents heard all through the world, the supremeimportance of a renewed and revivified religion.Count Tolstoy is the nice Christian moralist ofour time, and now we have now Prince Kropotkinbeginning in the Nineteenth Century the publica-tion of his new gospel of ethics, below the title The Ethical Need of the Present Day. And,at the similar time, one other Russian topic, theFi
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Title: Southern planter: devoted to practical and progressive agriculture, horticulture, trucking, live stock and the fireside
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Southern planter
Subjects: Agriculture–Southern States–Periodicals
Publisher: The Southern Planter Publishing Company
Contributing Library: College of William and Mary, Earl Gregg Swem Library
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th and thirtieth; Oct. 1st and 2nd. 4 Days and 3 Nights.COMPETITION OPEN TO THE WORLD. ,000 ELEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ,000 Offered tor Race Purses, and Premiums for Live Stock, Poultry, Farm and Garden Products, Domestic Science,Ladies Work and Childrens Department. PAID EXPERT JUDGES ARE EMPLOYED TO HAKE AWARDS. STROBELS PRIZE WINNING AIR SHIP WILL MAKE TWO DAILY FLIGHTS AND ONE AT NIGHT AND WILL BE ON EXHIBITION. A TROUPE OF JAPANESE ACROBATS, TRAINED WILD ANIMALS AND OTHER FREE ATTRACTIONS. SIDE SHOWS FROM ALL SECTIONS. ON TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHTS THE Finest Displays of Fireworks in the South. Midway, and Buildings Illuminated, Bands of Music, day and night time. No playing, bar-rooms or questionable showsare ever allowed. The finest order prevails and it’s the annual customized for households to spend the day at the truthful. Fourrailroads to the metropolis and two road automotive strains to the truthful grounds.. For premium Lists or data, deal with FRANK A. LOVELOCK, Secretary, Lynchburg, Va.
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