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Whether or not he was selling anything Gaudier worked like a demon, sometimes made 150 drawings in an evening. Gradually he met some useful friends: Frank Harris, Paul Morand, Jacob Epstein, John Middleton Murry. But he quarreled bitterly with Murry because Katherine Mansfield did not like Sophie. Nobody liked Sophie. Gaudier himself quarreled with her constantly. Frequently he tried to get her to become his mistress but she always refused, though she was not pleased when he went to other women...
There is also the roaring command "Everybody to the bar! The drinks are on the house!" Immensely funny are the exaggerated writhings of William Farnum's conscience as the battle for his soul goes on between Little Mary and the Demon Rum. Funny is the frail barroom, which trembles as if it were about to go to pieces at the first premonition of the great fight scene. That these excellences are unintentional in no way detracts from the power of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room. Yet there is pathos in it too, for William Farnum and Thomas Santschi used...
...some phases of undergraduate life. "What a travesty it all is" exclaims Alida K. L. Milliken, indignant champion of the simpler life, referring to the modern social swirl and "its youth, the victims of exploiters who commercialize it." According to this observer, the stag line is forced to the demon rum to sustain the early morning hours, while no spark of humanity lightens the chatter of female upon female, the monotony of drink upon drink. The debutante, overshadowed by the impersonal magnitude of her hospitality, loses the spontaneity that might have kept the stage from the bottle and thus broken...
...Manhattan 19 years ago at the U. S. premiére given at the Metropolitan Opera. Then her voice was so big and deep that she could even sing baritone airs, had done so once in Russia, as pinch-hitter for the hero in Rubinstein's Demon. Last week her countess was again a fearsome, palsied old hag in shawls; the voice, though thinner, still sure; and her presence the most compelling on the stage...
...indefinite program will probably include Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin, Rubinstein's Demon and Rimsky-Korsakov's Bride of the Tsar. The Manhattan engagement ends Dec. 28 whereupon a tour will be taken through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New England and into Canada...