“General Tom Thumb and Mrs. Thumb are unwilling to leave the country before the Fourth of July.”
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Announcement:New-York Daily Tribune, 22 June 1863.
The Duke’s Device is “an effective version of [The Duke’s Motto].”
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Announcement:New York Herald, 22 June 1863, 8.
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Advertisement:New York Herald, 22 June 1863, 7.
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Advertisement:New-York Times, 22 June 1863, 7.
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Advertisement:New York Herald, 27 June 1863, 12.
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Advertisement:New-York Times, 27 June 1863, 7.
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Review:New York Clipper, 04 July 1863, 91.
Gives the play as The Duke’s Request; or, The Hunchback and the Swordsman, by E.F. Taylor.“It was brought out here for the first time on the 22nd, and differs in many respects from that which John Brougham wrote from the original romance of Feval.And yet in several of the scenes we discover that the language is identical.”The acting gets mixed reviews.No mention of music.