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...shall not regret the passing of the Lexington Avenue Opera House as a temple of the muse. Its acoustics were bad; the orchestra sounded overloud and seemed to be almost a veil between the singers and the audience. Furthermore, it was almost as bad as trying to make your way to a Yale-Harvard football match to get to the entrance of the house. The street cars ran ceaselessly past the front, and there was usually a great jam of automobiles, pedestrians. And once you had got in it was equally difficult to get away...
Georges Clemenceau: " I superintended the production of my own play, The Veil of Happiness, at its revival in Paris. I reproved an actor who was playing the part of a god: ' Is that the way a god should speak ? When a god grumbles it is like thunder...
...King, who has been writing since 1900, when he published "Griselda", has published many popular books, among which are "The Street Called Straight", "The Lifted Veil", and "The High Heart". Along with his literary work Mr. King has devoted much time to the study of psychic phenomena...
Peace? The veil has been lifted and Mustapha Kemal Pasha speaks for the Turkish nation: " We desire peace! " This is a propitious omen for the future of the new Turkish State, and, backed by real sincerity, it will indubitably raise the prestige of Turkey in the West. It is certainly a feather in the fezzes of Mustapha Kemal Pasha and Ismet Pasha, his Foreign Minister...
...most enjoyable comedy touches in the scene in the third act between the newly-weds, Ruth, played by Alma Tell, and Bill Elliott, played by A. H. Van Buren. Among other amusing line comes Bill's observation that "The way girls talk nowadays modest men ought to wear a veil...