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Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.
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Remembered by Alexander Woollcott in his Shouts and Murmurs (1922) p. 87.
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To actresses playing the ladies-in-waiting in a production of Henry VIII, "peering at them plaintively through his monocle".

 
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