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In a North of England town recently a company of local amateurs produced Hamlet , and the following account of the proceedings appeared in the local paper next morning : " Last night all the fashionables and elite of our town gathered ...
In a North of England town recently a company of local amateurs produced Hamlet , and the following account of the proceedings appeared in the local paper next morning : " Last night all the fashionables and elite of our town gathered ...
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Didn't they ask you to come before the curtain ? " persisted the friend . " Ask me ? " answered Crane . " Man , they dared me ! " LEADING MAN IN TRAVELING COMPANY- " We play Hamlet to - night , laddie , do we not ?
Didn't they ask you to come before the curtain ? " persisted the friend . " Ask me ? " answered Crane . " Man , they dared me ! " LEADING MAN IN TRAVELING COMPANY- " We play Hamlet to - night , laddie , do we not ?
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Orlando Day , a fourth - rate actor in London , was once called , in a sudden emergency , to supply the place of Allen Ainsworth at the Criterion Theatre for a single night . The call filled him with joy . Here was a chance to show the ...
Orlando Day , a fourth - rate actor in London , was once called , in a sudden emergency , to supply the place of Allen Ainsworth at the Criterion Theatre for a single night . The call filled him with joy . Here was a chance to show the ...
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My opera is to be produced to - night , and I want good notices from the critics . " -C . Hilton Turvey . Paderewski arrived in a small western town about noon one day and decided to take a walk in the afternoon .
My opera is to be produced to - night , and I want good notices from the critics . " -C . Hilton Turvey . Paderewski arrived in a small western town about noon one day and decided to take a walk in the afternoon .
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Then he sat down . There was much laughter . Next day an Englishman who had been in the party came across Mark Twain in the smoking - room . " Mr Clemens , " he said , " I consider you were much imposed upon last night .
Then he sat down . There was much laughter . Next day an Englishman who had been in the party came across Mark Twain in the smoking - room . " Mr Clemens , " he said , " I consider you were much imposed upon last night .
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| Pealkiri | Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and Quotations |
| Editor | Harold Workman Williams |
| Compiled by | Clara Elizabeth Fanning, Harold Workman Williams, Halsey William Wilson |
| Edition | 3, reprint |
| Publisher | H.W. Wilson, 1916 |
| Original from | California Ülikool |
| Digitized | 11 dets. 2007 |
| Length | 483 pages |
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