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...occasion, [as a boy] for some undetermined reason, having been found at a village dance ... his grandmother, who was one of the old school, whatever that may mean, rewarded his virtue with one dollar...
...years when she was wandering among the wastes of custard comedy and overdressed society. In Zaza, the evidences of her ability to act as well as to wear well were remarked by the critics. In The Humming Bird she has forsaken completely her troupe of trained sequins and adopted boy's clothes. Her part is that of an Apache leader in the Paris slums who leads her dedecorus dragoons to the battle front at the first call of war in 1914. There is, of course, the handsome American newspaperman. Newspapermen are always handsome on the stage, just as actresses...
...British knight has come to me for information, saying that he wanted to send his boy to this country, when his friends told him that his son couldn't get along without Oxford or Cambridge, he replied: 'I am thinking of his manhood, when the United States will be the most prominent nation in the world. He then will have more honor and prestige by being graduated from an American university than if he studied here in our own dear little island...
...results of such procedure must be at best unfair and indecisive, for "with the schools as unequal as they are in the United States", often with widely different standards, the records could hardly be compared; while no satisfactory means has yet been devised for forming snap judgments of a boy's character, far less of comparing characters. And "personal interviews wherever possible" would be as unjust to those applicants who found it possible as to those who found it impossible. However interesting and significant the results of such investigation may be, they cannot be more than supplementary. An absolute standard...
With hesitation it may be asserted that the facts fail to prove the case. Emphatically they prove nothing against beardless brilliance. Horrible as a nation of prodigies would be, one now and then escapes premature impotence. There was a boy Chatterton who fooled wiseacres, an astounding child Macaulay, and the infant Mozart who played so sweetly that the whole family risked pneumonia to listen. And then, more recently, there is Daisy Ashford and the "Young Visitors...