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Perhaps the wittiest street entertainer is a magician. Jeff Sheridan, specialist in levitation, prestidigitation and coin tricks, can usually be found baffling audiences at Sir Walter Scott's statue at 72nd St., just inside Central Park...
...Drury Lane Theatre echoed with farewells, and the 2,000-strong audience cheered to the point of tears. London's most dazzling actor-manager. David Garrick, 59, had made his final bow. Having sold his share of Drury Lane earlier this year for ?35,000 to Playwright Richard Sheridan, 24, Garrick gave a series of farewell performances that drew crowds from as far away as France. He chose eleven roles calculated to display his unique range and the naturalistic style he pioneered, including adaptations of Lear and Hamlet. "The Garrick" had wanted to appear last...
Many Catholics have come to like their new independence and even many priests agree that on balance, it may be a good thing. "Too long we had this parent-child relationship between the church and its people," says Monsignor John Sheridan of Our Lady of Malibu parish. "That...
...portions of a slick weekly magazine comes about only as a result of a particular view of the world: that people are basically crazy, and that the only way to survive at all is through laughter. This philosophy has been carried through the centuries by the likes of Chaucer, Sheridan, Twain and Beerbohm. For the past fifty years the cartoonists in The New Yorker have espoused it, and have presented our frailties to us with wit, grace and, most of all, total disrespect for the supposed importance of our lives...
...spurious signatures of Mary Magdalene, Pontius Pilate and Lazarus (after his resurrection). Some of the great forgeries have acquired genuine value, notably a play purported to be by Shakespeare that was "discovered" by 18year-old William Henry Ireland in 1795 and was actually produced in London by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (the first-night audience howled it down...