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...Kiss in the Dark (Waltz...
...smiling tale of the adventures of Basil Price, private secretary to Lord Edmund Troyte, will serve the average reader as an acceptably mild antidote for mental fatigue. The hero first tries to get the fishing rights of an Irish salmon-stream for his chief; then foils a deep, dark plot of some rascally picture-dealers to buy an unknown Gainsborough? subject: Great Grandmother of the title?for a song from a ruined Irish squire. Sir Ames Coppinger, so the squire is called, has a barefoot daughter who provides what love entanglements are necessary. But nobody says " begorra...
...dragging of the river bottom was abandoned at dark and the above developments gave a new aspect to the situation...
When all ahead seemed dark as night...
Money. As to financial details, we are in the dark. The Metropolitan makes public no financial statement, but it is known that the opera company earns a clear profit, has been a paying proposition, in fact, for a number of seasons, since the early years of Mr. Gatti's directorship. It was reported that the profit for last season was $200,000. For this year the earnings are said to be less, because of new singers and new productions; something more than $100,000, says rumor. However, these sums are not called profits by the Metropolitan company. The name...