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When he wrote to Booth, while a young man, offering the actor a suggestion as to an improvement in his histrionic technique, La Follette rather startled people. He has been doing so ever since, when Governor of Wisconsin, when drafting platforms for the Republican party, and seeing them rejected. Now he is startling Congress by his liberal progressive bloc, not the germ of a third party, for La Follette is too old a master to risk his neck on that horse again, but as a reform movement within the Republican party...
After those strenuous hundred years come Hamlets whom men now living can remember. An eye-witness talks of one Henry Irving, a "travelling Hamlet" and his ovation at the Lyceum,--such as only a presidential candidate or Babe Ruth would get today. Then came Booth, the admirable nobleman, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, flawless in technique...
HARVARD AMHERST Lincoln, 3b. 1b., Eames Gordon, r.f. 2b., Booth Conlon, s.s. 3b., Sayles Owen, 1b. s.s., Hunter Buell, 2b. r.f., Martin Thayer, l.f. c.f., Wood Hallock, c.f. l.f., Leete Murphy, c. c., Heselton Russell, p. p., Perry, Baker, or Elliot...
...face of a man at peace with himself. If he has peace of mind it is a Peace of Versailles. . . . He has the look of one whose head has long been thrust out of a window gloomily expecting an accident to happen at the street corner. And General Bramwell Booth, the hard headed practical idealist, the fanatic possessed with such an unpopular loathing for sin, "listens with the whole of his attention strung up to its highest pitch, his eyes wide open staring at you, his mouth pursed up into a little O of suction, his fingers pressing...
Hollis.--"The Intimate Strangers" by Booth Tarkington. Wherein Billie Burke's maturer charms win out against the wiles of a Tarkington flapper. Delicate conversational comedy...