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During a span of 30 years, from 1894 to 1924, more than 40 of the musical comedies produced on Broadway bore the name of Victor Herbert. Fashions changed from broughams and leg-of-mutton sleeves to Stanley Steamers and hobble skirts, but the Herbert tunes endured. Radio took them up, made him the composer most played on the air. Last week his estate again proved itself to be a gold mine of melody. In Manhattan his daughter Ella Herbert Bartlett let it be known that she had sold Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the cinema rights to three of his operettas...
...Consistency," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, "is the hobgoblin of little minds." Surely you would not have me wallow in its quicksands, Mr. Fletcher; surely in these days of my ascendancy, you do not adhere to the mutton-chop philosophies of Truth for Truth's sake. Modern souls use ideas as weapons, and judge them according to their effect. What do I care whether the appeal is to honesty, truth, love, brotherhood, or patriotism so long as in their name men will do and act as I have planned...
...first revealed by this "buttery" ledger, was a "quarter dinner" held in the college four times a year down to 1765. The college butler prepared these meals. For one meal, in August, 1729, according to the "buttery" entry, the butler purchased milk, eggs, sugar, flour, nutmeg, "legg" of mutton, pork, squash, butter, pigcons, bread, apple pie, and wine. This meal cost 1 pound, 8 shillings, 7 pence, or about...
Thence by foot to fleet Street where I made merry at Devil tavern with much mutton and wine and heard loose gossip of the queen. By and by a strange drowsiness came upon me--I fear from too much mutton--and I did dream a most strange dream, one more fit to fall upon the mind of our prophetic Bacon than a poor Vagabond like...
When I did awake from my nap I found it was too late to go to the play at Duke's. And so to the Tower by moonshine and thence to my chamber whereupon I did take a physik to settle the mutton...