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...late, and it had taken a great deal of shouting out the window to bring him finally to the right door. Traffic in New York puzzles him. He now gets on a street car with an address in his hand and, as he says, "counts". As long as he doesn't cross a bridge, he knows that he isn't too far lost, and is content. He thinks the best prose from the U. S. recently is Don Marquis' great play, The Dark Hours...
...Criticism, nowadays, doesn't mean too much. No actor can please all the critics. But I'll venture that if all American critics were brought to one performance of my play, I could please 90 per cent of them. Most actors, however, don't read criticisms for any reason except that they are vain, and the critic praises them because it makes his job more pleasant than censure would...
...American Indians. He harnessed fame to his able statues of wild horses, won the gold medal in the St. Louis Exhibition of 1903, completed a statue of Lincoln (now in Newark, N. J.) of which the late Colonel Roosevelt passed the equivocal criticism: ''Why, this doesn't look like a monument at all." Always he has been active in public affairs: he helped the farmers of the Northwest when they cried for better prices, he investigated, at the request of President Wilson, inefficiencies in aircraft building during the War. Said he: "The man of position or wealth...
...There was a vigorous debate on this amendment, Senator Howell of Nebraska protesting that if it were possible to reduce any railway revenues, the reduction should be on freight rates for farm products. To this, Senator Reed of Missouri replied that the surcharge reduction would benefit everyone: "The farmer doesn't ride on the cowcatcher. He rides in the Pullman, just the same as other people." (Returned to House...
...replied, "No, it doesn...