English: Chauncey Olcott, c. 1918
Identifier: thegreatestofthe00tayl (find matches)
Title: "The greatest of these--";
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Taylor, Laurette, 1884-1946
Subjects: Manners, John Hartley, 1870-1928 Actors
Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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toIf you dont start in and buy. Would you like a sausage for a chain, for theyll take your gold away ?Would you like to say Guten Morgen instead of old Good-day?Would you like the smell of sauerkraut a-cook- ing in the pot ?Would you like to Hoch der Kaiser, and hock everything youve got? No, you wouldnt! No, you wouldnt!Im sure youd rather die.Keep a-thinking you may have toIf you dont start in and buy. Would you like to Hoch der Kaiser with every drink you take?Would you like to be insulted and treated like a snake?Would you like to have for breakfast a piece of German cheese?Would you like to have Limburger wafted to you on a breeze? No, you wouldnt! No, you wouldnt!Im sure youd rather die.Keep a-sniffing! You may have toIf you dont start in and buy. Would you like to see your baby dying on itsmothers breast?Would you like to see some flowers on your sis-ter spelling Rest ? etc., etc., etc. Nice, impulsive, small children actors andactresses are! Frightfully proud and intense about
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CHAIWCKY OWOTT THE GREATEST OF THESE 07 their work, but always reserving a tremendous ca-pacity for play, knowing that this is the fluid withwhich to store ones motor for a long drive of hardwork. The delay kept Mrs. Fiske from appearing untilten minutes to one. During all those hours shesat patiently waiting, curiously quiet yet most vi-brantly alive, nothing moving except her foot whichkept up an incessant tapping. Isnt it interestingwhen a placid, still personality sort of chugs under-neath like a Pierce-Arrow? Being a Ford myself—all noise and rattle—I admire tremendously theother thing. We both have our places in the world. The tired business man of Philadelphia mustbe in an ungovernable humour this morning. Justthink! He sat for five hours in one seat! Gen-erally we have waited for the audience, and theonly time we ever kept them waiting, we wept tothink that they should be so abused. Good-bye, Philadelphia! Do you suppose Wil-mington paid us that $7,000 as a sort of saucy j
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