[From a genius in Geneseo, Ill.]
Dear sir: I am the champion Cornhusker I have given exhibitions in
different places and theater managers and moveing picture men have asked
me why I dont have my show put into moves (Film). I beleave it would
make a very interesting Picture. We could have it taken right in the
Cornfield and also on the stage. It would be very interesting for farmer
boys and would be a good drawing card in small towns. I beleave we could
make 1000 feet of it by showing me driveing into the field with my extra
made wagon. then show them my style and speed of husking and perheps let
a common husker husk a while. I could also give my exibition on the
stage in a theater includeing the playing of six or eight different
Instruments. For instence when I plow with a traction engine or tresh I
also lead bands and Orchestra's.
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There is a stage in almost everybody's musical education when Chopin's
Funeral March seems the most significant composition in the world.
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The two stenogs in the L coach were discussing the opera. "I see," said
one, "that they're going to sing 'Flagstaff.'" "That's Verdi's latest
opera," said the other. "Yes," contributed the gentleman in the adjacent
seat, leaning forward; "and the scene is laid in Arizona."
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Mr. Shanks voxpops that traffic should be relieved, not prevented, as
"the automobile is absolutely important in modern business life." Now,
the fact is that the automobile has become a nuisance; one can get about
much faster and cheaper in the city on Mr. Shanks' w. k. mare. Life
to-day is scaled to the automobile, whereas, as our gossip Andy Rebori
contends, it ought to be scaled to the baby carriage. Many lines of
industry are short of labor because this labor has been withdrawn for
the care of automobiles.
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"Do you remember," asks a fair correspondent (who protests that she is
only academically fair), "when we used to read 'A Shropshire Lad,' and
A. E., and Arthur Symons, and Yeats? And you used to print so many of
the beautiful things they wrote?" Ah, yes, we do remember; but that, my
dear, was a long, long time ago, in the period which has just closed, as
Bennett puts it. How worth while those things used to seem, and what
pleasant days those were. Men say that they will come again. But men
said that Arthur would come again.
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Our method: We select only things that interest us, assuming that other
people will be interested; if they are not--why, chacun a son gout, as
the cannibal king remarked, adding a little salt. We printed "The Spires
of Oxford" a long time ago because it interested us exceedingly.
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