Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...season brought to Manhattan one more little wanderer who should never have been allowed out of manuscript. Probably you cannot keep people from writing these things. About three times a year one of the writers has enough money to put his platitudes into the mouths of actors. Often the audience laughs at the wrong time...
...working at his Joan of Arc with a new secretary. Josephine brings the notes and manuscript, bundled in a sheet. Safety-pins undone, a torrent pours on the carpet-notebooks, envelopes, visiting cards, tradesmen's bills, timetables. "Burn it, tear it to pieces, blue pencil it. I don't want to look at it. . . . The first thing to do, I think, must be to divide up the work." In a score of inkwells scattered about, there is no ink. Josephine fills them with coffee. The pens scratch and splutter. Joan of Arc is postponed...
...idea started rather well. A playwright lost in his youth the manuscript of his favorite work, never produced. The play heroine of his mind and heart tempted him into marriage with an actress of the same general appearance. The flesh and blood lady proved a false reality. Years later, she found the lost play, produced it, killed the sacred phantom with which her husband lived. There was little left...
Such matter as the Stanton Manuscripts which contain new information as to the contest with President Johnson and also the Johnson Manuscripts themselves will be photographed. Almost every month new material is coming in to the Manuscript Division of Widener and the handling of this mass of manuscripts is Professor Channing's present concern...
...Connell-Ginsberg Antiquarian Expedition to Rome has brought back a manuscript of great importance to scholars and rubbish mongers. It is none other than an ancient Hearstissimus newspaper, yellow with age and other contributing causes. From its pages is taken the following contemporary is taken the following contemporary account of the combat between Aeneas and Turnus, which proves that Virgil garbled the facts in Book XII of the "Aeneid...