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...response to a question regarding the other plays he has appeared in. Mr. Hampden said, "I gave almost 500 performances of 'Hamlet,' 600 of the 'Servant in the House,' and 360 of 'Caponsacchi,' 272 of which were consecutive. In the last analysis I prefer playing Shakespeare to any other writer, other dramatists have not the same terrific force that he has Acting Shakespeare is like bathing in the ocean...
...directors are paid $50 in gold for each board meeting and $20 in gold for each committee meeting. By custom these payments are turned over to directors' wives some of whom last year profited to the extent of $4,100 in this way. Mr. Coolidge, retired public servant, is not alone in being elevated to high office in a big insurance company. Last month Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. elected Alfred Emanuel Smith to its board of directors.* There he will sit with one-time Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Alanson Bigelow Houghton (Republican),† President...
...sheltering hill, Lieut. Fuqua drilled them in the rudimentary manual of arms until their nerves were steadied. Again, plunging through Philippine underbrush, he found an orphan Filipino being flogged by his uncle. The Lieutenant bought the boy for 30 pesos ($17). gave him freedom, education, employed him as personal servant...
...records shows here and there an unusual incident which has occurred over that long period, but it is easy to conjecture how many unrecorded events took place on this restricted but fascinating area. In 1653 John Betts who lived on the Holyoke-Winthrop corner was tried for murdering his servant with a plough-staff. We can imagine the master's feelings when, although not found legally guilty, he was made to stand at the gallows for an hour with a rope about his neck, and then submit to a severe whipping...
...gutter snapping at a passing mastiff. I have long since ceased to buy your so-called "magazine," but from the copies I see now and then in libraries and elsewhere I gather that a cheaply-sensational attitude is its present pose. I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant...