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...HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAIT (third edition, rewritten)-William S. Holdsworth- Little, Brown...
...Women? white, saffron, café-au-lait...
...comes Jack Lait, low-brow writer in a still lower-brow magazine, Variety. He is speaking of one Tom Burke, listed among the "New Acts" appearing at Keith's Palace, and he dilates on the relative merits of grand opera and vaudeville. After detailing Burke's former operatic successes at Covent Garden and " the principal European capitals,"he asserts: "The Palace opening, far from being regarded as a ' comedown ' may be regarded as the climax to the handsome young Irishman's career. . . . Covent Garden is some shucks over there, but the Palace is a more...
...best to appear cultured would dare to express ourselves as frankly as Mr. Lait, no matter how much we really were bored by Die Walküre. Indeed to dismiss all opera with a gesture might really appear, at times, to be going too far. But to the implication that vaudeville is an unappreciated art among our own clever-clevers, it seems safe to assent...
...supper. Corn or wheat bread at their choice, with milk, or Coffee-au-lait, also at their choice, but no meat...