Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both Governor and son furnished $1,000 bail and the Governor retired from office two hours later. Turning from the manuscript of his farewell address, Mr. Davis, "without wavering," defended himself thus...
...germ of a smart, satirical idea died somewhere in the transposition of this play from the author's brain to the manuscript, to the stage. Instead of provocative and shrewd sophistication, it offered nothing but lifeless conversation. Such accomplished performers as Margalo Gillmore and Grant Mitchell seemed seriously...
Winthrop Ames, one of our most selectively judicious producers, surrounded Mr. Arliss with a long and satisfactory company. Even in the raspingly British second act of the silly ass and arch girl sort, the players were usually above the manuscript. On the star's performance adjectives were tossed in an enthusiastic heap. He was furnished with opportunity to love, hate, eat, drink and die. These elemental attributes he interpreted with a gorgeous gusto, a decisive individuality which made the part one of Mr. Arliss's best since the days he did Disraeli...
...MANUSCRIPT OF ST. HELENA- Translated by Willard Parker-Appleton...
...save him from the misrepresentations he feared. In the main, he tells alike of his successes and his failures, his love for Josephine, the reason for his escape from Elba, etc. The sentences are short, sometimes overbearing, sometimes modest-a perfect tally with Napoleon's character. If the manuscript is a forgery-this is unlikely, for, as the translator remarks, Napoleon "went out of his way" to disavow it-it is only possible to congratulate the forger on his vicarious cerebrations...