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...colossal husband in this case is Bainbridge Colby, Manhattan lawyer. In fact, history might have neglected Mr. Colby, had he not been needed by certain bigwigs. Mark Twain used him as a lawyer; Theodore Roosevelt needed him as Presidential booster in 1912; Woodrow Wilson made him Secretary of State for the final year, after two others had been tried and found disagreeable. Perhaps Mr. Colby used to say to his wife: "Now if I had been President Wilson...
...become an actor-not only an actor, a better actor than John Drew. He appeared with Fanny Rice in The Jolly Squire in 1892; three years later his own name was in headlines across the façade of the old Herald Square Theatre. He was playing in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. He had intelligence, sensitiveness and a rare, nervous charm. He duplicated his success in London. He supported Mme. Simone in The Return From Jerusalem. At 28 he turned manager and introduced the plays of George Bernard Shaw to the U. S. He acted...
...face lifting in the good old days" surpassed its prototype in life. Best of all is the psychology chapter of "A Popular History of Knowledge". The haphazard selection of "one of the lower forms of life" is the best sample of humor of the irrepressible type since Mark Twain asserted that he was not superstitious, but he always did hate to sleep thirteen...
...little essay entitled "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences,"--an essay, by the way, that can be recommended to anyone who likes his humor biting--Mark Twain delivers some of his opinions of the first of America's older novelists...
...read the whole essay; and before you do, go to hear Professor Murdock speak on James Fenimore Cooper at 10 o'clock this morning in Harvard 2. His point of view will probably not be that of Mark Twain's, but it will also probably be more nearly right...