Born in small-town New England, Charles Browne began his career as a young contributor to the Boston Carpet Bag, a humor magazine, and later at Cleveland’s The Plain Dealer he adopted
Figaro discusses the current events in theater, especially the "benefit season." Figaro also briefly discusses the Octochriophonic Club and the Octochriophonic style.
Figaro notes that Booth is still very popular at the Winter Garden with Richeleau and Hamlet (2).
Figaro talks about his own failures to write in Octochirophonic style and his suspicion that Ward would also be unable to write in that style (2).
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Born in small-town New England, Charles Browne began his career as a young contributor to the Boston Carpet Bag, a humor magazine, and later at Cleveland’s The Plain Dealer he adopted
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