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Thence to Cock Horse to cat, and I was stung exceedingly, and thence to town and to Shubert to see Water Hampden as Cyrano de Bergerac. By good fortune I did get a box seat at balcony fee--so great was the audience--and by more good fortune did seat aside Miss Williams of "Three Men on a Horse" comedy. A pretty one she is and I did talk to her with great pleasure, all the time her gentleman-friend looking daggers at me which I did pretend...
During the stretch from 1876 to 1889 Harvard and Yale played in New Haven, Boston, New York, and at Holmes Field and Jarvis Field in Cambridge. In 1889 and until the break in relations in 1894, the game was played on a neutral field at Hampden Park, Springfield...
...Hampden does his level best with this nonsense, fails to dispel an impression that he appears in it because he lost a sporting election...
Achilles Had a Heel (by Martin Flavin: Walter Hampden, producer) is a distressing piece of mumbo-jumbo showing Tragedian Hampden as a Negro elephant-keeper in a zoo. Mr. Hampden and the invisible elephant love each other for being big. strong, noble. When a high-yellow wench, urged on by a jealous monkey-keeper, saps Mr. Hampden's integrity, the elephant, outraged, knocks his friend down with a blast of dusty air. The monkey-keeper gets the elephant job. makes a mistake, is promptly killed...
Nine new shows and two repertory companies (Walter Hampden & Ruth Draper) opened on Broadway last week. Not since 1927 had the Christmas-New Year week been so packed with premieres. And not since 1927, when Show Boat, Paris Bound and The Royal Family had their first nights, had the holidays produced such high calibre entertainment. By the end of the week, only three of Manhattan's 43 theatres were dark...