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...feat of moving the Library was accomplished early in the summer, the entire building being shifted in one section. Not a book was removed from the shelves, and not a table or chair disturbed. The Library now stands in the green plot directly behind Standish Hall...
Aside from the actual plot and acting of the picture some very interesting advice is offered to the love-lorn, which ordinarily would be excellent controversial material for Dorothy Dix rather than for her younger male namesake. But this time Richard turns adviser and as might be expected, his excellent counsels are turned against him to his ultimate downfall...
...trace of either pity or affection, "was Turassof. Of course eventually I intend to do concert work. For the present, however I shall continue in musical comedy with my partner Mlle. Lezandre, who also dances in this show. Although Mlle. Lezandre and I have little in common in the plot of the present performance, we are the best of friends, and intend to work together in the future...
...involved and somewhat ridiculous plot which serves as a skeleton for this lively and beautiful comedy is taken from the admirable inventions of the late great Tobias George Smollett (1721-71) in his novel The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. Likewise the strange eloquence of the Commodore who prefaces his simplest statements with "Hear the news," whose expression of habitual astonishment is "d'you say?" and who addresses his nephew, with deep affection, as a "human mistake...
...dream begins with a dreamlike name, "Le Palais de France." Its solid basis is a trapezoidal piece of Manhattan Island, 200 feet in shortest dimension, 498 feet in longest, just north of Columbus Circle, comprising the entire block in which the Century Theatre now stands. On this plot the dream will rise, garnished in every one of its 65 stories with the glories of modern French art and architecture. There is even a whisper that its walls may be of glass...