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...played with Lillian Russell in Giroflé Girofla, with Joe Weber in Higgledy-Piggeldy, with Sam Bernard in a burlesque of Romeo & Juliet, distinguished herself as Flo Honeydew in The Lady Slavey. After an unsuccessful engagement in London, she discovered a one-cylinder farce called Tillie's Night mare, played it in Manhattan for two years and on the road for three. It was in this that she sang "Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl...
...months at least once a year." (That meant that Roosevelt economy would not, as widely feared, curtail the Navy's war games.) "To further the development of two main home bases on each coast." (That meant that, on the Atlantic, Norfolk and Narragansett Bay and, on the Pacific, Mare Island at San Francisco and Bremerton near Seattle would probably be developed as the major navy yards at the expense of other shore stations.) What made Secretary Swanson's Policy Sheet mean more than it said was the man himself. As the longtime ranking Democrat on the Senate Naval...
...Feckless Dinner-Party," a gro- tesque parable of how a sophisticated group of diners were led astray by the butler ("Toomes") into the dark, silent cellars, the broken conversational lines may remind the reader of de la Mare's famed relation, Robert Browning, but the theme and its unraveling are very delaMare. "Thus Her Tale" tells of a suicide's ghost that still haunts her undiscovered bones, hidden in a thicket. In "The Owl," a baker's wife and daughter are shamed and frightened out of their wits and into their true selves by the silent gaze...
...stout profession of de la Mare's poetic faith...
...Author. Few apprenticeships to the Muse have been served in less promising quarters than Walter John de la Mare's. When he had twitched off the cassock of St. Paul's Cathedral Choir School he went to a high stool in the London office of Anglo-American Oil Co., spent 18 years there ploughing barren columns of figures. To overcome his environment and catch his Muse's eye, young de la Mare let his black hair grow long and wavy, attired himself according to his idea of the Latin Quarter. And while he kept others' books...