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SELWYN'S THEATRE
Colorado and the three other sparsely
populated gynecratic states. Massachu-
setts is not yet ruled by a "governess;"
there are no women on its supreme bench,
and none sit in its jury boxes; it has thus
far escaped a law which makes it a felony
for an unmarried man to decline an un-
married woman's offer of marriage. But
Mrs. Curtis's adumbration of some less
violent but highly significant changes was
remarkable. She really predicted, in the
next sequent generation of young women,
that union of virile athleticism and sopho-
moric abandon which makes the manners
of the twentieth-century girl so engaging.
Ours, by T. W. Robertson, was pro-
duced at Selwyn's in the spring of 1868,
and was succeeded, in 1869, by School,
My Lady Clara, and The Nightingale, by
the same playwright; and within a few
months, on either side of these two years,
David Garrick, Society, Caste, Play, Home,
War, and The M. P. were given at most of
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