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Charge of the (Torch) Light Brigade...
...this fantasy of J. M. Barrie the exclusive privilege of Maude Adams. Some months ago, Charles B. Dillingham went to London with the photographs of 20 actresses. Examining them all carefully, Mr. Barrie selected Marilynn Miller, musical comedy star. She will desert the musical stage to pick up the torch abandoned by Miss Adams...
...notably in the Garibaldi at Sarzana, and the newly erected Quadriga at Rome. Said Fontana: "We, too, claim some share in Shelley's memory. He lived and died among us. Prometheus has, I suppose haunted most sculptors. What fitter monument could Shelley have than Prometheus Unbound, bearing the torch of freedom? The port needs a lighthouse. The mountains close at hand furnish the marble. The primary notion was that of a memorial to the poet but it is now coupled with that of a symbol of the friendship between the two nations, of old date in spite of passing...
...sweet reasonableness coming to us from Monticello, the voice of 'Old Hickory,' coming across the Blue Ridge from the Hermitage, and from that historic crypt at St. Albans we hear the mighty voice of Woodrow Wilson, wistfully calling to us: 'To you, from failing hands, we throw the torch. Hold it high! Hold it high! Carry on, carry on; keep the faith, keep the faith...
Standing upon the stones of Caesar's forum in Rome, Benito invoked the glories of the past to assembled Italian volunteers, ending his discourse with: "These stones of Rome are but steps from which the newer Rome will bear the torch of the future...