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...Pachmann has invented a new technique of piano playing, a technique the characteristic feature of which is a rigidly stiff wrist. He says that until he had reached the age of 70, what he played was trash, as are trash the present performances of other pianists, who use the old technique. De Pachmann embarks upon an extended tour of the U. S. It will be interesting to see how public and critics respond to pragmatic demonstrations of the new technique, which the pianist protagonizes with such spirited phrases...
...case may be, is new to the public, and therefore plays before crowded houses during its entire stay, while Shakspere draws only a handful of true lovers of the drama. Yet Shakspere must stand, so to speak, upon his own legs, in financial competition with the so-called 'trash', or pass into oblivion...
...librarian of the Astor Library, in New York City, writing to an officer of the Boston Public Library on books and tastes of the day, bewailed the fact that "Our young readers want nothing but trash--such as Dickens and Thackeray. "Vanity Fair", "Pendennis", "The Newcomes", and "Esmond", had already been published; "Oliver Twist", "David Copperfield", and "Nicholas Nickleby", to mention but a few of the illustrious list, had appeared some time before. A hungry myriad of readers was clamoring for more "trash...
...been, for Mr. Quick could have produced an exceedingly interesting volume by holding to the thread of history of contrast. It is a story of middle aged lion between a very young girls, who more firmly. As it is, by sugar coating schoolbook facts with the conventional love trash, he introduces an element which is both out of place and annoying. The heroine may be the cause of all the difficulty, for she is the worst-drawn character in the book; imported as she is from the stockroom of the modern author and compromisingly placed in an 1836-60 novel...
...probable that a smouldering cigarette was left in the reading room, and was carried into the trunk room with the papers and trash that are stored there...