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...pitiable folk, for they will not understand the astonishing thing he has now done-written a book of modern times with all the glamour upon it that was on Messer Marco Polo, The Wind Bloweth and his other tales of days long gone. His warmest admirers will be quickest to see that he has not done this rich thing without overdoing it occasionally-slipping over briefly into unredeemed melodrama, laying on a few too-thick bits of the Biblical locution; but in the main they will be delighted and amazed to see in this, his best work yet, the subtle...
...Echo had started three years before, but failed quickly, when the Herald was brought into the field. In the first year of its existence the Herald did many things that advertised it all over the country. The city dailies gave it credit for getting out "extras" in the quickest time ever known in the newspaper world...
...impatience of undergraduates with the slow development of the tutorial system is but natural; yet it must be admitted that development has been almost as rapid as the solution of the problems of adaptation and tutors has admitted. To press boldly for great changes, however, is often the quickest means of obtaining some advance. Undergraduates, therefore, will probably insist more and more that the tutorial system be extended, that it receive a proportionate emphasis in the administration of scholastic discipline and honors, and that course requirements be greatly reduced...
Maudlinity came to be worth the incredible sum of $6,000 a week to them. They formed their own company. Famed were its members: Peter F. Daily, "the quickest-witted man who ever wore grease-paint", who drank a quart of champagne and a quart of whiskey every evening in his dressing room; golden Lillian Russell who "broke 1,000 hearts a night" when she sang Rosie, you are my Posie; David Warfield, William Collier, Fay Templeton, De Wolf Hopper, Bessie McCoy, Frankie Bailey, Sam Bernard...
...prefer New York audiences to all others. This is not because New York is such a big city by any means, but because for some reason its audiences are the quickest to appreciate an actor's efforts, the quickest to rise to the occasion. Next to New York, Philadelphia runs a close second. Philadelphians are really very delightful and gracious, as far as plays are concerned at least...