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...lost my temper. ' Imbeciles! Pigs! ' roared I to the musicians. Maestro Spadoni, who was in charge, stalked toward me, hit me squarely on the nose." Clara Clemens, daughter of the late Mark Twain: "At Town Hall, Manhattan, I gave a recital. Said the critics: 'Sincere, eager, creator of a poetic atmosphere . . . technical shortcomings as a singer . . . indistinct pronunciation.' My husband, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, who usually is on hand to play my piano parts, was not present. Boris, King of Rumania: "The American press made much of a rumor that I plan to come to America in search...
...creator of a big, blonde, Baltic lummox...
...former home, a most devilishly sombre, dreary place, whose atmosphere is far from brightened by the old housekeeper, a West Indian. The business of this character is to scare everyone as often as possible which is pretty often, judging by the shrieks of the female audience. As a creator of spooky, nerve racking tension she is quite effective, but as a West Indian servant she seems a bit overdrawn...
...first "Woman's Rights Convention " assembled, and James Mott, husband of Lucretia, was asked to preside. Several women spoke, or rather read their speeches. A " Decclaration of Sentiments " was passed?an imitation of the Declaration of Independence?beginning: "That, being invested by the Creator with the same capabilities, and the same consciousness of responsibility for their exercise, it is demonstrably the right and duty of woman, equally with man, to promote every righteous cause...
...would be thoroughly at a loss as to the line of conduct one follows with an unroasted duck. In fact, she may be secretly annoyed. Whence, then, do these stories come? Why, if there is no duck, is a duck thus strikingly exploited? Who is the duck's creator? A press agent is the gentleman who keeps The Stupidities before the public. It is his business to ferret out facts about the company, fashion them into entertaining if reading, hawk them among the dramatic editors. When the facts run dry he "plants" a story. His steadfast purpose...