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...worn-out copper mine near the crest of the Bluebird Range in Montana, lives an old man with tobacco juice in his beard, holes in his shoes and memories in his head. His name is Bill Martin. He is a mine caretaker, sometimes a sheepherder, virtually a beggar. When he was young, he says, he prospected for silver and copper with a fellow called Bill Clark, formally named William A. Clark. Together they found metal, a lot of metal. Bill Martin drank up and gambled away his share. But not Bill Clark, who kept his head, went into politics, went...
...miserable indeed are the attempts at humor. Most musical plays try hard to coax a laugh, usually failing utterly. Here the coaxing is incessant and the results beggar description. If you get a good laugh you get your money back...
Doubtless it is more blessed to give than it is to receive, and doubtless the consciousness of this fact causes many a miser, waddling slowly homeward, to ease his crusted conscience by tossing a dime for a beggar to waste in drink and debauchery. Such philanthropy is pleasant but it is not blessed by efficiency. No more efficient is indiscriminate philanthropy conducted on a larger scale. The purpose of the Community Chest is to lessen the indiscrimination and waste of large-scale philanthropy by simple and effective cooperation. Thus, instead of several separate and slipshod campaigns for charitable financing...
...undergraduate, Gay began buying editions of the "Beggar's Opera", and other works of John Gay. His collection of this author's works was nearly complete. Since his death, the Library has purchased three early editions with peculiarities which had escaped his notice, besides buying later editions as they appear...
...appears on the fly leaf of Dryden's 'Annus Mirabilis' of 1667, and of a 1662 Elzovir edition of Pierre Charron's 'De La-Sagesse.' It is also signed to the manuscript assignment to Jacob Tonson and John Watts of his rights as author of the 'Fables' and the 'Beggar's Opera,' dated February 6, 1727. The poet's signature is not easy to find, but infinitely scarcer is that of 'L. Bolton' the Duchess of Bolton who was once Lavinia Fenton, the creator of the part of Polly in the 'Begger's Opera,' and in no small measure responsible...