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...Lynch had a variorum account. She marched into Woman's Court, declared that Mrs. Brucer and Mr. Lynch had "gone to a cabaret and gotten drunk." She charged alienation of affections and adultery. The Court permitted a disorderly conduct complaint to be lodged against the Dry crusader, later mollified the Frenchwoman with Mrs. Brucer's promise never again to see Mr. Lynch...
Here Goes the Bride- Cartoonist Peter Arno of The New Yorker had an exciting time in Reno last summer. There will never be other than variorum accounts of the procedure, but at some time during his residence, scrawny Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr. chased Mr. Arno across the landscape with an unloaded revolver. Mr. Arno included no incident quite so funny in his Here Goes the Bride, which perhaps accounted for the fact that the show went into oblivion after seven performances, together, it was understood, with a sizeable amount of money amounting to six figures belonging to John Hay ("Jock...
...Gloss of Youth" (Lippincott) Horace Howard Furness Jr., who is carrying on his father's work in editing, the Variorum Shakespere, leaves the annotators to their wrangling and lets his imagination run free. The one-act play, which was produced not long ago at Philadelphia, is an imaginary episode in the life of the Bard of Avon. Feeling that the public cares only for his "ranting" histories and has no feeling for his great tragedies Shakespere is in a state of depression. But the interest which three children, one John Milton and another Noll Cromwell, take in his work, refreshes...
Among the additions made in the near past are a finely bound set of the Harvard Classics, a gift of the publishers, and an edition of Furness's Variorum Shakespeare, presented by the famous annotator's descendants...
...more volume, the eighteenth, has now been added to the Variorum Shakespeare, with the completion by Horace Howard Furness '88, of the manuscript for King John. The last volume is reported to have taken more time in preparation than any other in the set edited by the late Horace Howard Furness, Sr., '54, and his son, and published by Lippincott Company...