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...hour London is well into its day's work and Sir Harry is the British Consul-General in New York. More than 40 years ago he was a dashing captain of the Irish fusiliers. More than 30 years ago he was an actor of Shakespeare in London's famed Haymarket theatre. Nine years ago he crossed the retiring line for members of the British Civil Service, but not until last week, after two special extensions of his appointment, was he ordered definitely to withdraw at the close of the year. He has been the grand old man of foreign consuls...
...admiration for Debs too often gets control and sweeps him into passages of sloppy panegyrics. The story is the story of Debs, human, flashing, courageous, a great personality, right or wrong, and not the story of So cialism in the U. S. Skillfully has Biog rapher Coleman dramatized the Haymarket riots, the Pullman strike, the ''Red Special" campaign, the dark days at Atlanta. He can almost be excused for skimping over Debs' whiskey drinking and the "free love" scandals of Socialism. The Author. Me Alister Coleman, 42, New York City Socialist, was a newsman for four years...
...patient jumped up and struck the doctor on the head with an iron bolt done up in cloth. He then rushed out leaving his overcoat. He is described as a man about 30, 5 feet 6, weight 150, with light brown hair. Dr. Kovacs was taken to the Haymarket Relief Hospital in our Ambulance and treated for 2 lacerated wounds of the scalp. The man wanted left the office with a bandage on his left ankle and his name is thought to be John King...
...collection, unusually large in its scope, extends from 1780 until 1820, and is drawn from the bills of the Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket theatres. Before the playbill for March 10, 1788, for the presentation of Macbeth, is a long notice for the Morning Post apparently in the handwriting of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, who was at this time lessee of the Drury Lane theatre...
Composer Handel, martial, romantic, won fame for impressive oratorios, the best known among them being The Messiah, Samson, Judas Maccabaeus. Lately, led by the University of Gottingen, Germans have resurrected some of the operas their countryman used to compose, sometimes in a fortnight's time, for production at the Haymarket Theatre, in the London of Addison and Steele, Alexander Pope and George I, the music-loving Hanoverian...