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A DRAMATIC CRITIC
frau, Miss Carson, Miss Mary Cary, Mrs.
Thomas Barry, Miss Harris, Miss Kitty
Blanchard, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Wells, Miss
Fanny Morant, Mrs. E. L. Davenport, and
Messrs. Frederic Robinson, Stuart Rob-
son, C. H. Vandenhoff, H. S. Murdoch,
W. J. Le Moyne, G. H. Griffiths, Harry
Pearson, H. F. Daly, and Harry Josephs
were, at different times, members, — were,
it might almost be said, the chief theme
of Boston's table-talk. The theatre's ini-
tial experiment had been made with La
Famille Benoiton of Sardou, played under
the name of The Fast Family ; but the
triumphs of its first season were won
with three curiously contrasted dramas,
of which two are now unknown to the
public stage, and the third is seldom seen
in this country. These three were, Dora,
a very free dramatic version, proceeding
from the pen of Charles Reade, of Tenny-
son's brief idyl of the same name ; The
Spirit of '76, a comedietta, by Mrs. Daniel
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