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...season, that Conductor Erich Kleiber had decided to give it at the Staatsoper in Berlin. In both places it will be staged with the chorus of pursuing savages grouped out of the audience's sight at first, some underneath, some in front of the stage. As they draw nearer to Jones, first their hands will emerge, then their arms, then slowly their bodies. Jones's encounters in the forest will be shown on small, raised stages to indicate that they are taking place in his imagination...
...such contract, probably at a figure nearer $25,000 but involving also serializing in Hearst's Cosmopolitan Magazine, Publishers Farrar &; Rinehart and Author Bromfield's lawyer still seem to be haggling. In oblique reference to the possible serializing of Bromfield, his old publishers say of his current offering: "This novel has not appeared in any periodical." Other Stokes-Bromfield books: The Green Bay Tree, Possession, A Good Woman, The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg, Twenty-Four Hours...
Squires was in his rooms?protected by the three clergymen whose parade, to their infinite distress, had become a riot. As the mob raged nearer & nearer to the Premier's rooms Father John Pippy took command, arranged a back-door escape for the Premier after whispering among mobsmen in that quarter. Out front, Newfoundlanders were dancing on the Government's piano, dancing it to smithereens and pocketing piano keys "as souvenirs." For an escape the instant seemed propitious to Father Pippy and to potent John Power, a burly fisherman who had agreed to help...
...work, the breakfast bacon seemed to lie quiet in its own grease. As the day wore on a strange murmur like far off breakers on a distant beach began in the St. Antoine to break the sullen quietude. Travelling slowly along the crooked streets it gathered volume always nearer, always louder. At last with a great roar it burst out around the high walls of the Bastille and the Revolution had begun. The Paris mob broke up running, shouting, shrieking, calling, hurling, swearing, beating, advancing, swarming; but always moving, always attacking, always increasing. They stormed the deep ditch, the double...
Bulkley perhaps comes nearer than the others to meeting the qualifications of a dark horse. His state of course, is in his favor, but he is far from being the only man with presidential aspirations coming from a pivotal state. The diminutive figure of Baker makes that of Bulkley look very small at this time. Moreover, it is by no means certain that Bulkley's avowed wet stand is a point in his favor...