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...rocks. It was saved only by the dogged efforts of his eldest son Dave. Little Carlotta, the youngest, saw her father's hand laid restrainingly on one after another of her brothers and sisters who wanted to break away to a life of their own. First it was Paget, whose girl was not only penniless but not good enough. Matt considered, for a Welland. Then it was Tom, who twice got away but whose gutlessness drove him back finally to stay. Jenny ran off one rainy night to be married, but her conscience drew her home and into...
Hand Talk. Sir Richard Arthur Surtees Paget, lawyer, physicist, songwriter, stood before one section of the B. A. A. S. with some tin tubes. By solemnly blowing and wiggling his fingers he made the tubes give out familiar words. This was his way of proving that sounds could be resolved into simple elements and contrariwise, combined into complex sounds. He urged further scientific study of phonation so that eventually all people will pronounce their words uniformly...
Miss Violet Paget plays the part of the disguised society leader in as convincing a manner as possible. In the role of Captain Dorvaston, Mr. Hugh C. Buckler makes a good try at the "good-hearted giant" type of army officer, a necessary feature of most light comedies laid in England. When Miss Katherine Standing, who plays the part of Lucy Pillenger, comes on the stage, even the lightness of the comedy becomes a burden to be cast aside, cars are closed, and eyes open wide, very wide...
...Doyle, very unlike his original idea. The detective had, as imagined by Doyle, "a thin, razor-like face, with a great hawk's-bill of a nose and two small eyes, set close together on either side of it." But the original illustrations, done by the late Sidney Paget, were posed for by the artist's handsome younger brother. Future illustrators have followed Paget. The name of the character was originally planned as "Sherringford Holmes." Dr. Doyle has always felt that the popularity of the Holmes stories has obscured the value of his other more pretentious works...
...young man he was engaged to Lady Florence Cecilia Paget. One day, as they were on a shopping tour, she walked out of the door, slipped into a cab that the Marquis of Hastings had ready, drove directly to church, married the Marquis. About three years later, at the Derby of 1867, Hastings' horse was favorite. Chaplin's horse, Hermit, broke a blood vessel about a month before the race and went to the stake at odds of: 100 to 1. Just before the race Chaplin took every bet that was, offered. The race...