Born in Riga, NY, Mortimer Thomson was a humorist and journalist who wrote under the name Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P.B.--Queer Kritter, Philander Doesticks, Perfect Brick ("Obituary," 5).
Addressing his piece to the "General" or "General Public," Quelqu'un discusses the quality of the current burlesques and Tycoon, or Young America in Japan.
Brougham's Pocahontas is mentioned as one of the "Burlesques" the "General" maintains a "fondness" for (3).
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Born in Riga, NY, Mortimer Thomson was a humorist and journalist who wrote under the name Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P.B.--Queer Kritter, Philander Doesticks, Perfect Brick ("Obituary," 5).
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