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M'Liss
M'Liss (1878), a play by Clay Greene. [Niblo's Garden, 16 perf.] M'liss ( Kate Mayhew) is “the waif of the Sierras,” a bright, attractive young hoyden who has been neglected by her drunken miner father. She is spunky enough to fight off ruffians who would attack the young man she loves, and also to win him away from a more sophisticated lady—“the pink and white thing”—in whom he seems all too interested. The play, based on a Bret Harte story, was produced in New York after Mayhew won an injunction preventing Annie Pixley from presenting her production of the work. The victory was short‐lived, for the injunction was soon lifted and it was Pixley who afterward was identified with the part and toured in it for many years. There is some question as to whether Greene wrote the version Miss Mayhew employed. Pixley's version was sometimes billed as M'liss, the Child of the Sierras.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "M'Liss." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "M'Liss." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (February 12, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-MLiss.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "M'Liss." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved February 12, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-MLiss.html |
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M'liss
M'liss, novelette by Bret Harte which in its characterization of a willful young girl and her adventures in the mining country represented an early treatment of life in the gold rush. The earliest version appeared in the Golden Era (1860), from which it was expanded for serialization in the same journal (1863) and collection in The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches (1870).
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "M'liss." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "M'liss." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (February 12, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-Mliss.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "M'liss." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved February 12, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-Mliss.html |
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