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...heaves wash on to remote, high-slung clothes lines; he rushes on stage between the shafts of a cart and asks the audience if they have seen a horse go up the aisle. But there are dreary spells when the book is too much for him, and much drearier spells when he isn't even around...
...Cannes. To Manhattan newshawks who tried to coax her to reminisce about her career, she roundly replied: "There's no good talking to me. I never really liked the theatre. I just happened to be in it. Night after night I have played in successes. They became drearier and drearier. They gave me my theatre. They provided for me so well that I was able to give a relative $500,000 and she got it while I was still living. But they were hopeless, deadening things. Anyone who has the task of interviewing a former actress of repute . . . might...
From now on Harvard is likely to figure in the police news every few hours. As the strain of examinations lifts more and more men annually ape the antics of the monk of Siberia whose prospects grew drearier until he burst from his cell with a loud scream. Already reports are drifting in from the expeditions of the more original freedmen. A pair of enterprising Martin Johnsons have gone on a pigeon hunt along the streets of Boston and Cambridge, popping at their feathered friends in the eaves of prominent buildings of the town with small damage to the birds...
Miss Barrymore, of course, simply picks the play up and juggles it with all her amazing virtuosity. It provides her with a typically Barrymore part. Hers is a personality which makes irresistible and inimitable seem weakling and inexpressive adjectives. America would be a far drearier land without...
...scholar is bound to become in turn a teacher, a missionary of the higher culture, showing its beauty in his life no less than in the product of his mind, carrying that lamp of enthusiasm which you have kindled here into the dusky chambers of ignorance and into the drearier darkness of a belief in merely material prosperity. It is in performing this duty that "the teachers shall shine." Coming as I do from the oldest College in the country to the newest, I feel myself in some sort an accredited ambassador from the Past, the representative of tradition...