The New York Mirror Annual and Directory of the Theatrical Profession for 1888Harrison Grey Fiske New York mirror, 1888 - 208 pages |
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... plots are appended . Critical comments have been entirely omitted , as foreign to the scope and purpose of the Record , which deals simply with facts . The endeavor throughout has been to secure accuracy ; but in the collection and ...
... plots are appended . Critical comments have been entirely omitted , as foreign to the scope and purpose of the Record , which deals simply with facts . The endeavor throughout has been to secure accuracy ; but in the collection and ...
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... plot hinges on the complications that ensue from the deception practised on the Duke of Rio Seco . Compelled to fly from his Spanish estates , he entrusts his infant son to the care of Girassol , a nurse in the village of Mont ...
... plot hinges on the complications that ensue from the deception practised on the Duke of Rio Seco . Compelled to fly from his Spanish estates , he entrusts his infant son to the care of Girassol , a nurse in the village of Mont ...
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... plot introduces old Uncle Josh at his home , surrounded by his relatives and friends . Josh's son has been for some time in New York , and not having heard from him , he goes to the Metropolis to visit a friend of his boyhood , Henry ...
... plot introduces old Uncle Josh at his home , surrounded by his relatives and friends . Josh's son has been for some time in New York , and not having heard from him , he goes to the Metropolis to visit a friend of his boyhood , Henry ...
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... plot to Louis Long , now a gentlemanly lounger , but formerly the hero of the battle of Winchester . Long , as Alden's friend , takes the matter in hand , bullies the Count into a written recantation , and marries his own particular ...
... plot to Louis Long , now a gentlemanly lounger , but formerly the hero of the battle of Winchester . Long , as Alden's friend , takes the matter in hand , bullies the Count into a written recantation , and marries his own particular ...
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... plot relates how Renah , a French girl of the sixteenth century , is harshly treated by her grandfather , because she is the child of his only daughter , who had deserted the parental roof to marry a gypsy . Renah falls in love with ...
... plot relates how Renah , a French girl of the sixteenth century , is harshly treated by her grandfather , because she is the child of his only daughter , who had deserted the parental roof to marry a gypsy . Renah falls in love with ...
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