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...rupees - Second bill from Cecil (August 2 -September 7). The Cecil is an island of Paradise in a political hell. On a cool white verandah the rulers of the British Raj sit sipping chota pegs and singing for the "kipnagar" (waiter) and talking about India as if it were something very far and remote and inconsequential in their personal lives...
Solely to amuse themselves, a group of friends at Provincetown, Mass., 16 summers ago, went over to Hutchins Hapgood's verandah and put on a couple of plays. Susan Glaspell was there; so were George Cram ("Jig") Cook, rebel John Reed, Mary Heaton Vorse. Robert Edmond Jones, a young man of talent and resource, fashioned scenery out of porch furniture, odds-&-ends. The Almighty supplied the backdrop, a tumbling ocean. Next year the play-acting fad persisted. Mary Vorse turned over a shack on her wharf to the enterprise and someone named Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, a lank...
...gloomy verandah, Lavinia, aware that "the damned don't cry," speaks her elegy to faithful Seth, the gardener: "I'm bound here-to the Mannon dead! Don't be afraid. I'm not going the way mother and Orin went. That's escaping punishment. . . . I'll never wear anything but mourning again. Life doesn't fit the Mannons. Only death becomes them...
...afraid he is!" answered the neighbor from her verandah. He did. Mrs. Stock-Givan scurried home...
King George was not present at the prorogation and neither was his Prime Minister. While the King Emperor waited near a telephone on the verandah of the Royal Yacht squadron at Cowes, looking at yacht races and waiting for news of the birth of a grandchild, Ramsay MacDonald was on his way to Oberammergau?first visit of a British Prime Minister to Germany since the war. It was Ramsay MacDonald's fourth Passion Play: 1890, 1900, 1910 all found him at Oberammergau...