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Seldom since the day when Pilgrims first placed expectant feet upon the rock at Plymouth, has the Commonwealth of Massachusetts had a servant who refused legitimate checks amounting to more than $50,000. This man, who plunges into politics for love and duty, is Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts. Said he recently...
...reporter . . . had never heard of Ivy Lee and went, naively, to the Rockefeller home. Mrs. Rockefeller was having a reception and could not see the reporter. But she sent a servant with a message, scribbled on the back of a letter. It suggested calling upon Mr. Lee at 111 Broadway...
...story: a proud nobleman forced to labor as servant to a haughty countess conquers and is conquered in love. After all these years and years of nobility in difficult incognito, those who still relish such fare will find the Countess Maritza thoroughly edifying, highly seasoned with color and music, harmoniously staged. The same romantically inclined folk will overlook, in the general glamor, a turbulent succession of flat puns and desperate buffoonery. They will even forgive the unfortunate costume foisted upon handsome Songster Walter Woolf in the third act. They will thrill to the tinsel, to the song "Play "Gypsies...
...discovery was made, not an unfinished symphony to be treated and pieced together, nor a scrap of a sonata, cool, clear, deathless, but a part of a diary on an old memorandum sheet scratched by Beethoven, the querulous, untidy, unreasonable old man. It has to do with his servant problems...
...January 31-Discharged servant...