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Henry Irving and it is on record that she detested U. S. playgoers because they seemed generally to prefer the melancholy Booth. She nonetheless toured the U. S. with great success and sometimes sent her greetings to its citizens. Portia was her greatest role; her admirers bewail the fact that she never played Rosalind for whom her sharp features, her grace and gaiety and the instinctive good taste of her acting would so well have fitted her. Her association with Irving-with whom she played from 1878 to 1902-terminated in a quarrel which was never completely explained. Soon after...
...only were the cramped quarters of Massachusetts Hall and the inappropriate Agassiz stage entirely disproportionate to the work which was being done, but completely inconsistent with Harvard traditions. But this is not the time to conjecture why Yale could offer more in this direction than we, nor to bewail the loss of a splendid institution. It is for us to recognize an accomplished fact, and to be supremely happy that a movement which many of us cherished so highly is to have new life and added vigour...
...Last week in Manhattan a dozen prominent Floridians gathered to protest against the reckless and fraudulent exploitation which is hurting their state. Governor John W. Martin of Florida was in the chair. Coleman Du Pont sat by. Said Herman A. Dann, President of the State Chamber of Commerce: "I bewail . . . . those fictionists and self-serving plungers whose work and words are an abomination...
...latest public utterances--almost Gladstonian in tone--he has praised the Scotch Sabbath as compared with the Continental Sunday. It is no wonder that his wilder supporters from Glasgow--the irrepressible Jack Jones and others--should often chafe under the rein and that even his closest friends should bewail the fact that he so seldom chooses to rise to heights of impassioned and inspired defense of Socialistic ideals. But he has made the choice and they must be content with his decision. More serious in its tendencies to weaken the Labor Party is MacDonald's impervious disposition; he is inclined...
...impossible because it reveals a sadistic intolerance. The millions who bewail the blunders of the gelatine generals should rather offer paeans of respectful thanksgiving. The modern movie, clumsy as it is, is simply crowded with virtues of omission. The cinema first flickered across the screen of civilization about two decades ago. Think for a moment of the original sins now eliminated...