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"Ingenue" Quotes from Famous Books

... help Miss Ward," wrote Anne. "Well, I have practically secured an engagement for her with Mr. Forest. It is an ingenue part in 'The Reckoning,' which is to run in New York City all summer, at his theater. If she can come to New York as soon as college closes Mr. and Miss Southard wish her to stay at their home. We can soon tell whether she can play the part or ...

— Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus • Jessie Graham Flower

... grateful to Aunt Flo. She was tired of being considered an ingenue. She wanted to be treated with the dignity ...

— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice

... a dear thing but that, contrary as it was to their life-long policy to knock anybody, they must say that she was beginning to show the passage of the years a trifle and ought to be warned by some friend that her career as an ingenue was a thing of the past. Dramatic critics, slinking in twos and threes into dark corners, were telling each other that "The Rose of America" was just another of those things but it had apparently got over. The general ...

— The Little Warrior - (U.K. Title: Jill the Reckless) • P. G. Wodehouse

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