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...Majesty, the Widow (by John Charles Brownell) is the vehicle which oldtime Tragedienne Pauline Frederick (Madam X) put together in San Diego, Calif, in May 1933. After a 13-month drive across the western plains, it arrives on Broadway creaking like a stagecoach. So familiar has Miss Frederick become with every bolt and board in its rusty structure that she is inclined to overact, grimacing broadly at every tiresome turn, popping wide her eyes and flapping her hands at each sorry nuance...
...Jeffers' intention to live in Europe was thwarted by the War. Looking for a place to live they came on the spot where Hawk Tower and Tor House now stand: ''When the stagecoach topped the hill . . . and we looked down through pines and sea-fogs on Carmel Bay, it was evident that we had come without knowing it to our inevitable place...
...true eulogy of Washington is this mighty Nation. . . . What other great, purely human .institution, devised in the era of the stagecoach and the candle, has so marvelously grown and survived into this epoch of the steam engine, the airplane, the incandescent lamp, the wireless telephone and the battleship? . . . We should strive to identify the qualities in him that made our revolution a success and our Nation great. Those were the qualities that marked Washington out for immortality . . . Lexington . . . Concord . . . Bunker Hill . . . Valley Forge . . . Yorktown...
Secretary of War Davis was fascinated by what he heard of the great deserts in New Mexico, Arizona and southern California. In 1853, stagecoach lines or the Pony Express had not yet followed the covered wagons of the Gold Rush. There were Indians in the desert lands, Indians whom the War Department must subdue. Secretary of War Davis took thought and sent some Army commissioners to Egypt. Object: to buy dromedaries...
Fred Andrew Stone and Will Rogers, funnymen, gave Washington's Smithsonian Institution an oldtime nine-passenger Wild West stagecoach, built by a "G. Gerald, Blacksmith, Concord...