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"the County Fair."

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
January
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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Xoil Burgess' triumph of stage mechanism makt's its bow on next Wednesday eveniug, at the Grand opera house. Theaire-goers kauw tbut this piece lias luid the must phenornenal run in New Vork and Boston that bus ever been known in the history of the drama. It played four yearsin New York and one year in Boston, to the enormous amouut of over live milHon dollars. The public bas vet to see a play itself with sucb novel departures in stage settings and snch wonderful mecbanical effects. Pluck and perseverance ahvavs make friends. The "County Fair" wil] be proven tobe the monument of the courage and tenacity of Neil Burgess. The play opens in a New Ehgland sitting-room. The second act carries the spectators out of doors npoti a scène the equal of which has never been produced. The audience looks out iuto the country tor miles and miles upon the picturesque scènes of Rock Bottom Farm. The eompany this season includes Miss Marie Bates as Abigail Prue; Marión Ballou, as Tags; William H. Burton, as Otis Tucker; Henry Simon, as Tini; the "County Fair (uartette," etc. The homely domestic ñavor of the play, its characters pictured faithfully after New England life, its husking bee, its singing, its real cows and tive real ihoroughbred racéis, wil] appeal to all lovers of the drama. Seats should be secured in advance. Prof. Scott will discuss the question, "Should Credit be Given for Work on College Publications ?" before the Press Club, Saturday afternoon at 4:30. The meeting will be held in room 12, law building, where future meetings of the club will be held. This is a topic which will be of great interest to all members of the club, whether connected with any publication or not. The question has been bothering faculties and editorial boards during the past few years, in which college journalism has made its great growth, and has in some cases been settled affirmatively, oftener negatively.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News