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Friend W. Richardson of Californias "As he talks, especially as he becomes interested in one of his favorite topics?economy, for instance?he looks out at you from under extraordinarily heavy eyebrows, and his eyes snap and his brows twitch. He buries superficial crudities under a river of picturesque language...
"Ah, let the sweet birds of the Lord With earth's waters make accord: The Muses' sacred grove be wet With the red dew of Olivet, And Sappho lay her burning brows In white Cecilia's lap of snows!"
"The average worker is convinced that the Church exists largely for the white-collared people. They regard it somewhat as a comfortable social club for merchants and bankers, Rotarians and members of the Chamber of Commerce ... I have a recollection that somewhere in the New Testament it says that when...
Gatti. The season finds the Metropolitan high in the joys of tranquillity, prosperity, prestige. It is the 16th year of Mr. Giulio Gatti-Casazza's directorship. Few cares there are to vex the brows of impresario and Board of Directors. Deficits, the bane of opera, are not heard of. There...
Gatti's coming gave promise of many ructions. He was an Italian, the first Italian to direct at the Metropolitan. There had long been a New York opera feud between the Italians and the Germans. At the first mention of the new impresario it blazed to new heights. The Germans...