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...Lafayette, we are here.' " Not his. Col. Charles E. Stanton, U.S.A., now of San Francisco, spoke for ''Black Jack" at Picpus Cemetery, and coined the phrase. When Stanton wrote his speech in advance of delivering it, Pershing read it and inked his O.K. on it. The manuscript belongs to the Family (club) of S.F. The phrase is its preoration. Furthermore, Pershing gave Stanton credit some years ago in a letter published in Collier...
...next morning Correspondent Ralph Heinzen passed through the "Death Watch," entered M. Clémenceau's bedroom. He found the old gentleman at his desk again, scratching at his manuscript, still grumbling at patient Sister Theoneste, looking with his cap, his drooping mus-Of Anarchist Emile Cottin Tiger Clémenceau has exclaimed: "The idot! They condemned him to be guillotined. I signed his pardon myself!" tache and slanting eyes more like a venerable Chinese idol than ever...
...extremely rare piece of the collection is a group of 36 pages from the manuscript of "Pendennis," entirely in the hand-writing of its author, Thackeray. One page contains three original sketches, labeled "George Washington," "General Bonaparte," and one unnamed. There are six original rough and traced sketches, in pencil and pen and ink, of illustrations to "Pendennis," all by Thackeray...
...Friend the King", in which he is now playing at the Apollo theater, for it does give him an opportunity to perform three acts in the debonair fashion that becomes him so well. But the play can hardly be said to meet any other standards of taste. The manuscript might well have been a composite of the theater's most familiar scenes, for there is scarcely a situation that has not become painfully hackneyed through years of repetition; and their quality is not improved by the latest transmission. With such material the struggles of Mr. Faversham and, his supporting company...
Authoress Delmar's manuscript is not illuminated with metaphor or stylistic arabesques. She writes her tawdry tale as simply as she might speak it. Daughter of show folks, onetime actress, usher, typist, she enjoys playing chess and ten nis badly, is 24, a mother. She has lived not only in The Bronx, but in Belmar, N. J., Scarsdale, N. Y. She returns from a European trip in November...