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Carry smashed a cigar-stand in Coney Island, acted in Elizabeth, N. J., in Hatchetation (originally Ten Nights in a Bar-room), lectured in a burlesque show in Springfield, Mass. Hearing President McKinley was shot, she lost favor by saying "I have no sympathy for this friend of the brewers." When President Roosevelt refused to receive her, she revealed that he was a cigaret-smoker, also that "Government, like dead fish, stinks worse at the head." In 1911 she died in Leavenworth Kan. "Faithful to the Cause of Prohibition; She Hath Done What She Could" - so ran her epitaph...
...although they are at present on a lower standard than the stage, will overcome this handicap, and reach the artistic worth which they are aiming at. The motion pictures today are in the condition in which the stage was 15 or 20 years ago, when 'Ten Nights in a Bar-Room' and 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' were popular. These plays are gone today, and the second-rate motion pictures will be gone tomorrow. There is one thing that makes changes in the motion pictures very slow,--every picture must appeal to every class of audience. The film that is shown...
...result of Mr. Bragdon's knowledge of lighting effects, it has been possible to shift the scene in the first act from the business man's home to the interior of an Alaskan bar-room without lowering the curtain. In this new setting a pantomime representing "The Shooting of Dan McGrew will be vividly rendered...
...that Harvard less faithfully answers the often quoted definition of the visiting Chinese savant who wrote, "They have a large athletic club here named Harvard. On days when it rains the students read books"; or the famous description of Artemus Ward that Harvard College was "pleasantly located in the bar-room of Parker's." Life in time may become as rigorous as it was when the snow filtered through the roof of Massachusetts Hall, ice was cracked for matutinal ablutions and beer and soggy biscuits were the breakfast food. The declining use of purchased literature perhaps means increasing dependence...
...word pictures. Not that Harvard is not ready to be criticized for her good; quite to the contrary. We only ask that criticism come from real, deep thought and from knowledge of the majority and not from individual notions. We are sorry that Mr. Stearns had to listen to "bar-room or pool-room gossip, given additional vigor by quotations from the classics." We wish now that someone who knows what undergraduate conversation and habits generally are would step forward and praise rather than confess and condemn...