The great building rocked under the applause.
New York can always be trusted to applaud itself.
The lights of the sign went out. H. R. motioned to his stage-manager.
In the back of the stage the curtain that told of the wonderful feeding
system--50,000 people, 6-3/4 minutes!--fell.
A hush also fell on the audience, for back of it was another white sheet
on which everybody read: