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...Copenhagen. He criticized the Danish government for its reactionary tendencies, the Church for its formalism, the University of Copenhagen for its intolerant dogmatism; was exiled in 1877. Invited to return in 1883 he became popular, especially for his humanized history. In 1914 he was exhausted by a brief but strenuous visit to the U. S. On seeing the Statue of Liberty he remarked: "Is that all the liberty you have?" This was taken as a joke, but nine years later he said: "Nowhere is social liberty less in evidence. ..." A 40-year friendship with Georges Clémenceau was broken...
...college my boys ever went through is the school of profanity" remarked Ted Lewis, "High Hat King of Jazz", speaking of his orchestra in an interview to the Crimson, backstage in the Tremont Theatre yesterday. He had just finished a performance and was resting for a moment after his strenuous three hours. Just at that moment, there squeezed angrily through the doorway of the dressing room a musician carrying under his arm a bass viol. Turning the instrument over, he showed three great cracks to the comedian. "How about getting the heat turned off in this the-alre?" he asked...
...After a strenuous afternoon of instruction, tea was served to the memberes of the two companies. At the same time, news reels and newspaper photographs were taken out of doors, a considerable crowd watching the proceedings...
...Simple Life, famed book by Charles Wagner, was, in the current catchpenny philosophy, the complement of Theodore Roosevelt's doctrine of "the strenuous life...
When asked her opinion of mystery plays Miss Rambova replied that they were most strenuous for the actress. "We are continually studying the audience," she said, "in order to get the right effect. So much depends on the little things. You must close a door with the most mysterious manner, there must be an added significance in the way you walk across the room. It is fun though to try and thrill the audience. Once the cast has them in its power we enter into the spirit of the thing and almost frighten ourselves. Again we have to rehearse...