The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-07
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eighth failuro and season
horc than half over rather |
10 q playwright and fail than n
rittt compelled 10 listen 10 has
Teens and would hes trying 10 put |
'ver bad plays. oh. for |
nst ono mora great frstnlsht |
IL there's n spirit world !
shy don't the ghosts or dead art |
stS get toEcther and !nhthtt bad |
hsywrssMs from tnrmentins hcst
fighters. Astral board of
n,mar,als sitting IN Unconscious !
weaAlag strings unttl gohhets and !
icleretscs become gjhhering idiots |
Wery tSme they pat pen 10 paper"
Fewer first nights hut |
neve Joy also COY OF send. |
as producers back ~ ctsar stands, |
Thank God. no longer = |
srs,so don't need 20 come
20 firstrtehts uuless ] want Il
,sn't keep away habit too
stvcpg poor devil ot a
.elyumtss mus. FORAGE why
sia become y eeN,mnIst' More
money, Money! And ! once
suhoscea, socialist best
parlor type Iord' wish
some one would die and leave NE
, millicnl"
Clavcring opened his weary eyes
. Aaa glanced over the darkened
i auditorium. visualislng mass ot
\ bored resentful disks: few hope.
tul, perhaps. tho greater number
too educated In the theatre not 10
/, have recognized the heavy note ot
Incompetence that had doomed
: ii,la mut,led fog-horn since tho
rise OF the curtain.
II was typical flrstnIght audi
vorite actress In new play. All
the Sophisticatcs las Claverirg
: had named them. abandoning IN
t~lloctuals" and "lntelligentia'
10 the rarlor SocialistO were
present: authors. playwrights, edit
tors and young editors. columnlsts.
dramatic crltics. young publishers.
tho fashionable illustrators and
cartooniats. n few actors, artists.
sculptora. hostcsaoa of the cmi-
mont. and sprinkllng of Green
witch Village Ia give n touch OF old
I Bohemia 10 what was otherwise
almost ~ brilliant and standardized
as Monday night at tho opera
Twelve years ago. Claycrlng. I'm
PEELED irrcsistihly from dilari
dated colonial mansion In Louisi
Ina to the cerohrum OF the West
y srn World, had arrived In Nov
York. md run tho usual gamut Of
the high powered man from re-
porter tn special writer. although
youth rose 10 emincnce less rapid
"A ~ then than now. Dramatic critic
NJ hia newspaper for thrco years
1.-TWO years at the war). an envied
quoted and omntscicnt columnis
aince his return from France
1ournalistically he could rise nj
higher. and none OF tho frequent
|, distinguished parties given by The
Sophisticates was complete with
Y, ont the long lounging body an'
s, saturnme countcnanco OF MIR. l.e'
u Clavering AS soon as he had Sc
foot uron tho ladder OF promincnc,
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/ value or dramatieing himself. an,
although no was as active or bod,
b "a vt mind and of an amiahle an,
<, genial disposition. Az his friends
sometimes sngrily protested, hi
7 world. that world W increasing i'm
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a. a cynical. morose, mystcriou
creature. who. al n party, trans
forred himself from ono woman
eide 10 ancthcr's by sheer effort y
yin spurred by boredom. Tn
Unmarried women had given hin
IN as u confirmed bachelor. hut
kw still followed his dark fac
nth LONGING eyes, Qle sometime
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.ensely romantic, even after To
Il sears Of newspaper work IN Ne,
u FORK and two Of war; and whe
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eaMsummate woman,
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late. IN hts general boredom, No
that no did not sti0 'sko his work
kar possibly pan,iifca:sag ever
morning over his lannon's name &
an admirsag pahile, ha. he wa
sfea or ~the crowd" the same al
aces. tired az the steady grind, o
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taasssanate love az .hea drama"
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