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...diverting story about his first performance as the Duke in Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. The baritone role was sung by De Luca. Now, De Luca is a very merry person, as are many who excel in tragic parts. His round, snub-nosed face was made for mirth, especially its wide, thin-lipped mouth, which even in repose is curved like a jocose crescent. When De Luca sings, he grimaces in such a way that his mouth carries the leer of a laughing satyr...
...Carnarvon, made speeches in Wales and Lancashire. At Bolton, speaking with a microphone in his hand, he said: "John Bright's victory was a Lancashire victory." Then, in aside: "What about Cobden ? Was he a Lancashire man ?" The crowd, of course, heard him distinctly and hooted with mirth; whereupon Mr. George commented: "This is a mischevious instrument. I wondered if you heard it." He remarked that protection was useless, that the U. S. could not keep out British goods, that they would have to put a roof over the country in order to do so, and, even then, British...
...tomb of Dimitrino the First. His romance with Lady Sarah Wimpole burns like an incandescent lamp. Lions, sheiks and whiffle-hens bar his way, and after quite unbelievable exploits he is left alone with his memories. A take-off on the popular Sheik brand of fiction, adequately mirth-provoking though not quite so good as The Cruise of the Kawa...
...Wharton (nee Jones) is a New Yorker by birth and a cosmopolitan by inclination. She was born in 1862 and has been in the literary limelight for almost 25 years (her first book, The Greater Inclination, was published in 1899). Most of her novels, which include The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, The Glimpses of the Moon, deal with the so-called upper classes at home or abroad, but her masterpiece, Ethan Frome, is a grim little tragedy of character laid in a New England village. For a number of years she has resided in France...
Then there is the Grand Guignol-the theatre of one-act playlets of horror and somewhat ribald mirth. No American visit to Paris is quite complete without one seance at the Grand Guignol. The Vieux Colombie-a highly original repertory company of experimentalists in the new stagecraft-should furnish you with several delightful evenings, even if you understand as little French as most New York theatrical critics do Russian. The Guitrys whatever they are acting in, individually or collectively, are worth observation. The Pitoeff company playing at the Comedie Champs Elysees, in The Lower Depths, Androcles and the Lion...