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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1900. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE STAGE AND STAGE FOLK Much in a Name It transpires that Mme. Janauschek's name, translated from the Bohemian into pure Anglo-Saxon, is Johnson. One can more fully appreciate the richness and ripeness of the change when he contemplates the possibility--the ridiculous possibility-- of the burly old lexicographer's having been known to posterity as Dr. Samuel Janauschek. August 22, 1882 Count Bo DEGREESenta's Possibilities Mr. Charles Bozenta's address delivered night before last before the Polish societies of this city was a scholarly, thoughtful effort. In some respects Bozenta reminds one very forcibly of Carl Schurz: he is a scholar and a thinker, and, in spite of his bad accent, is an agreeable, rapid, entertaining, and instructive talker. He has all of Schurz's vagary, combativeness, wit, and cynicism, with much more sociability and heartiness, and a much keener appetite for the smaller details of every subject he investigates. Bozenta has a fondness for politics, and after he has conducted his wife, Mme. Modjeska, through her farewell season, it need not surprise anybody to hear of him as bobbing up serenely in the troubled sea of California politics. September 14, 188}} After Michael Angelo Henry E. Dixey tells a story to the effect that John Stetson once went behind the scenes in his New York theatre and found fault with a certain piece of scenery then in use. "What is the blamed thing, anyway?" he asked. The stage-manager informed him that it was a scene after Michael Angelo, whereupon Stetson pompously exclaimed: "Well, it's no good. Pay Mike his salary and let him go " A day or two afterward Dixey was reciting the incident to Jack Haverly, but Haverly did n't seem to catch on to the joke. So Dixey repeated the yarn, and Haverly, forcing a property smile, exc...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217649759 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217649750 |
| Weight | 0.31 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.21 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 86 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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