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Nearby "Brimstone Corner," so called because brimstone was stored in the basement of the Park Street Church in 1812, is the windiest spot in the City. It seems one day the Devil and the Wind were making merry on Tremont Street, blowing dresses and parasols, when suddenly the Devil saw...
Sound & Fury. For all her garish conduct, Tallulah is capable of great charm, dignity and kindness. During the filming of A Royal Scandal, an older actor blew his lines in one scene 85 times, but Tallulah never made the slightest show of impatience. Her genuine respect for age is linked...
When success first came, Lehar was 35 -broad, bluff and charming. But he had had to fight for his laurels. The first rehearsals of The Merry Widow in Vienna seemed so bad that he had to plead with the director, "Let us at least open." Its Vienna success was instantaneous...
Adolf Hitler had proposed some tinkering with The Merry Widow too. He used to see it as often as three times in a month, but he wanted Lehar to "modernize" it. Hitler's admiration cooled, and later Lehar was put under house arrest in Vienna because he had refused...
Died. Wilfred Meynell, 95, poet, essayist, discoverer of drug-addict Poet Francis Thompson; in Pulborough, England. With his poet-wife, the late Alice Meynell, he founded and for twelve years edited the literary review Merry England. In 1888, he received some verses written on blue sugar-bag paper by the...