Word: hoppered
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...Hopper is Wang's Raison d'Etre...
...discuss "Wang" without Wang himself is to publish a book with only the appendix. Gilbert and Sullivan's operas may go on regardless, but Wang will die with the retirement (let us hope not, for another thirty years) of De Wolf Hopper. Indeed if Hopper had not erected it to its "present perpendicular attitude" "Wang" would be already dead and happy in "innocuous desuetude." But Hopper gives the thing its, authority, as the Kentuckian said of the "corn" in the julep. When he is on (which happily is most of the time) whether to heap new polysyllabies on the head...
Such was the admission of DeWolf Hopper, the famous comedian who is giving a repertoire of comic opera at the Boston Opera House, when he was interviewed in his dressing room by a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Hooper will begin a week's performance of "Pinafore" on Monday, and between the acts, he will give again the dramatic presentation of this poem by a Harvard man, which he has already given over fifteen thousand times...
...matter of conjecture and speculation ever since it was written in 1888. A well-known magazine conducted an extensive inquiry as to its author, and many men have claimed to have signed the initials "E. L. T." which appeared under the poem in the San Francisco Examiner. Mr. Hopper, while waiting his cue as "Colonel Popoff" in "The Chocolate Soldier", explained the true authorship to the CRIMSON reporter...
...journalist. "Casey at the Bat", Mr. Thayer's masterpiece, was dashed off in a very short time as a space filler for the paper. It attracted little attention, until six, months later when it was brought east by Archibald C. Gunter, the well-known author, and given to Mr. Hopper, with the suggestion that he might some day be able to use it. "I was playing at the time at Wallack's Theatre", Mr. Hopper explained, "and we were giving a special performance for the Chicago White Sox and the Giants, who were then playing a series in New York...