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More business to De Pinna, and I trust the loss of "Denny's" trade will not force De Pinna to the wall...
...Inasmuch as the Bard wrote without the use of a curtain, many of his scenes are bound so closely together that any appreciable wall destroys the continuity of action. For this reason I have arranged to make the intermissions between acts and scenes of a minimum duration; this can easily be accomplished with our type of semi-permanent scenery. When the wait does not exceed half a minute the theatre is kept dark in order to maintain the flow of action and proven occasion for untimely criticism and comparison. For instance, in the ghost scene of "Hamlet," when the prince...
Immediately there broke out a hullabaloo. Fighting with chairs, clubs, bottles, 300 Nationlist opponents of General Smuts drove his supporters to the wall and captured the platform, where they sang and danced to the sound of the tearing of British flags used to decorate the hall. Many bleeding faces bore evidence of the affray...
Membership is something short of 1,000. Only a fraction are active members. There are about 300 actors. The rest are writers, painters, sculptors, playwrights, newspapermen and a few acknowledged patrons of the arts, of which Vincent Astor is most prominent. In glass cases on the wall of the club hang Booth's Hamlet and Shylock costumes, his pipes, the skull he used in Hamlet. It is a real skull. Tradition says it is the shell of a murdered man who willed it for Booth's use. Another treasured relic is Mark Twain's check...
...been technical. But the penalty was heavy disgrace. He had vanished from his hotel, leaving no clue, only a note disposing of a nebulous estate in favor of his sister and brother; had written in a letter "in case anything should happen to me through accident or otherwise. . . ." Wall Street veterans shook their heads. It was not the first time a ruined broker had thus prepared...