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DRAMATIC Q_UINQ.UENNIUM
ton : first at Selwyn's Theatre, by Mr.
Robinson as Peggotty, Mr. Le Moyne as
Uriah Heep, Mr. Pearson as Ham Peg-
gotty, Mrs. Barry as Rosa Dartle, and
Miss Mary Cary as Emily ; and later, at
another house, when John T. Raymond
gave his delicious interpretation of Mi-
cawber. Also, it may be stated in paren-
thesis, midway of these years, to wit in
1872, occurred in Boston the Peace Jubi-
lee, with its huge chorus and orchestra,
its foreign bands of instrumentalists, and
its presentation of Madame Peschka-Leut-
ner ;
the necessary machinery having been
set in motion by Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore,
most persistent and tireless of conductors
and entrepreneurs.
It was at "about this time" — the fa-
miliar quotation from the Old Farmer's
Almanac is apropos — that that breaking
up of stock companies, which had previ-
ously begun, took on a precipitate speed.
There were still, however, a dozen or so
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