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Whistling blithely one Giuseppe Carmagnola, Roman garbage collector, drove his cart round the corner of the Church of San Marco Maggiore last week, descended to empty a garbage can. To his horror he saw three fragments of the Sacred Host negligently tossed among the garbage...
...dramatic interludes were introduced in which actors like Albert Carroll and Blanche Talmud, who have since made names for themselves, appeared. Then the Playhouse adopted a regular schedule, won increasing notice with such plays as Granville-Barker's The Madras House, Gibour with Yvette Guilbert, The Little Clay Cart and The Dybbuk...
...ancient carriage craft were continued. The first automobile engine was mounted on a buggy chassis. The new vehicle was popularly associated with its predecessor and nicknamed the "horseless carriage" and "gasoline buggy." Ex-carriage makers became automobile body designers. Early cars were frequently entered from the rear (dog cart), equipped with horsewhip stands, often painted black and usually festooned with fringe, beautified with brass...
...night of ferocious wind, she alarmed her family by not returning home. Next morning she reported that when her tent had collapsed she had "crawled out from under and put it up again." In Paris, where she lived when her parents separated, she used to borrow the goat-cart in the Luxembourg Gardens and sell the rides herself. When she was 14 she copied out the entire memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt in longhand, an act of adolescent devotion which may have helped form her whole character and to which the great stage lady was not insensible. Debunkers have labelled this...
...well enough to take it straight without music, the King-Emperor went two nights later to chuckle at Marie Tempest ("the British Mrs. Fiske") in St. John Ervine's comedy The First Mrs. Fraser. Pieces passed up by Their Majesties included Shaw's new Apple Cart, Barrie's old Dear Brutus, and a magnificent Gilbert & Sullivan revival sequence at the Savoy Theatre, now sumptuously rebuilt and gone modernist...