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Philip Merivale uses his engaging shamble and deep, even resonant voice in the same ways that favored "The Road to Rome". His showman's speech before the curtain was lightly and beautifully done. Guy Standing put patchicolored Harlequin up beside the other two leading parts with a smooth and restrained performance. The principle of return dominates "The Jealous Moon" as it did "Prunella", the dean of all whimsicalities and most of Barrie. Shabby Pierrot, tended by the lustreless Vermilia for whom he once left Columbine, wears a flannel muffler as he sits in the garden where love had been...
...Earl Carroll's is not without some justification: the vapid beauty of his mannequins, who haughtily undulate to the clinking music of gold in the Carroll coffers, is without superior in any professional or amateur congress of pulchritude. Awareness of beauty in women seems to be developed in Showman Carroll to a degree beyond that of any of his competitors. More than this cannot be said in favor of Fioretta, but this should be said...
...Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum was the only man who ever completely outwitted Bennett. The Herald had made fun of Barnum's famed Jenny Lind. Barnum retaliated by selling Bennett some land at a fabulous price and by keeping theatre advertising out of the Herald for two years...
...United States." Thus foreigners like the Revolutionary Marquis de La Fayette will undoubtedly find their place in a later volume. As it is the first volume already includes such names as Astronomer Cleve land Abbe (4 columns) ; British Baron Jeffrey Amherst (3 columns) ; President Chester A. Arthur (6 columns) ; Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum (5 columns); Actor Maurice Barrymore (2 columns). The need of such a dictionary was first voiced by the American Council of Learned Societies in 1922. Dr. Johnson was appointed editor-in-chief, and a com mittee cast about to find sufficient funds to start the work. Funds...
...President Samuel Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, publicly asked: "Shall we turn over this magnificent Governmental structure to a showman [Governor Smith] to be President...