Theater Party

Afterwards Sid had wagged a finger at me and explained that on those two nights we'd been giving performances for people who'd arranged a costume theater-party and been going to attend a masquerade ball, and 'zounds, when would I learn to guard my half-patched pate? ❋ Fritz Leiber (1951)

She was immaculate as ever -- as composed and stylish as if she were going to a theater-party instead of on an all-night ride to London. ❋ Coningsby Dawson (1921)

We found an invitation awaiting us for to-morrow night and the gentlemen in the house proposed a theater-party for this evening, to see the amateurs, but it is Lent, and I am trying to do better in the way of refraining from worldly amusements and mortifying the flesh, than I did in Montgomery last spring, so we spent the evening at home. ❋ Unknown (1908)

It was before the supper and just after we came in from the theater-party which Mr. Mansfield gave. ❋ Unknown (1908)

She related a story of a disastrous theater-party which she had once joined, and which had been arranged by an aspiring woman with little sense of fitness. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)

-- [It has been supplied to the writer by Mr. Dickinson, and is published here with his consent.] -- One of the librarians who had heard it mentioned it at a theater-party in hearing of an unrealized newspaper man. ❋ Albert Bigelow Paine (1899)

Jim took charge of our movements, and commanded us to a dinner with him, in the nature of a celebration, with a theater-party afterward. ❋ Herbert Quick (1893)

173 One of the librarians who had heard it mentioned it at a theater-party in hearing of an unrealized newspaper man. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Couldn't we get up a little theater-party -- Mrs. Ellersly and your daughter and you and I-- Sam, too, if he cares to come? " ❋ David Graham Phillips (1889)