"Character Entertainment at Music Hall," Boston Globe, Feb 25, 1875

"Character Entertainment at Music Hall," Boston Globe, Feb 25, 1875

Lippincott, Sara Jane (pseudonym: Grace Greenwood), 1832-1904

Gossip--Lecture

Humor

Gender Norms

Praise

The article reviews Grace Greenwood's and Sarah Fisher Ames's performance at the Boston Music Hall. It stresses that "[i]n reading pieces of delicate humor, she [Greenwood] certainly excels most if not all the professional readers of her sex."

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Newspaper.com

Globe Pub. Co.

1875-02-25

Reference

Not only a large audience but a very select and cultivated assemblage gave kindly greeting to "Grace Greenwood" and Sarah Fisher Ames in the Music Hall, last evening, in their unique entertainment of reading and costume personations. It is difficult to class the entertainment either under readings, costume personations or dramatic recitations, yet it embraced all these, and certainly proved on eof the pleasantest things which Boston has seen, this season. [...]  Mrs Lippincott's talent lies in a direction entirely different from the tragic power of Mrs. Ames, but it is in its way quite as artistic and remarkable. In reading pieces of delicate humor, she certainly excels most if not all the professional readers of her sex, and she is a true actress by nature, her powers of facial expression and skill in make-up and disguise being worthy of quote. [...]

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