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1896.
is very much on the stage & everyone enjoys him. He is very correct of course. His riding suit is "a dream". He is funny. In fact all the dialogue is very bright & witty. Gladys Wallis is the cutest little school girl with curls & very much in love with an idiotic Englishman, till his beard is shaved off - when she laughs at him. There is an absent-minded professor - who forgets everything - and his pretty & stunning young wife. Miss Adams has quite a tragic part which she acts beautifully & ideally. She grows lovlier & lovlier. We walked home by the Herald Bldg. & saw the big presses, but they were not working yet. - Quite ready for bed and February 28th Friday. slept very well. Got down for breakfast at 9:15 & found Gordon talking to Claude. We chatted a while and then went to breakfast & met Gordon & Madden at the League
later (after a pleasant walk up Fifth Avenue.) Ed. Nolan also happened in & going thro' the exhibit with the comments of these young architects was quite inter- esting. It was a fine exhibition, we all thought. I liked especially the sketches for decorations to Hotel Manhattan. Elihu Vedder's sketches for the Congressional Library. An angel baptistry. A burnt wood large panel (or 3) of adoration of Joan of Arc. The numerous casts of Gen'l Sherman statue competition (I tried to take some photographs - with very doubtful success, I imagine.) Some drawings of Louis Rhead's "Winter driving Fall" and "Spring driving Winter" (very bright & decorative - also some swan & peacock decorations by the same artist) Claude's book plates were the best there, too. A lot of interesting architectural

1896.
is very much on the stage & everyone enjoys him. He is very correct of course. His riding suit is "a dream". He is funny. In fact all the dialogue is very bright & witty. Gladys Wallis is the cutest little school girl with curls & very much in love with an idiotic Englishman, till his beard is shaved off - when she laughs at him. There is an absent-minded professor - who forgets everything - and his pretty & stunning young wife. Miss Adams has quite a tragic part which she acts beautifully & ideally. She grows lovlier & lovlier. We walked home by the Herald Bldg. & saw the big presses, but they were not working yet. - Quite ready for bed and February 28th Friday. slept very well. Got down for breakfast at 9:15 & found Gordon talking to Claude. We chatted a while and then went to breakfast & met Gordon & Madden at the League
later (after a pleasant walk up Fifth Avenue.) Ed. Nolan also happened in & going thro' the exhibit with the comments of these young architects was quite inter- esting. It was a fine exhibition, we all thought. I liked especially the sketches for decorations to Hotel Manhattan. Elihu Vedder's sketches for the Congressional Library. An angel baptistry. A burnt wood large panel (or 3) of adoration of Joan of Arc. The numerous casts of Gen'l Sherman statue competition (I tried to take some photographs - with very doubtful success, I imagine.) Some drawings of Louis Rhead's "Winter driving Fall" and "Spring driving Winter" (very bright & decorative - also some swan & peacock decorations by the same artist) Claude's book plates were the best there, too. A lot of interesting architectural

1896.
is very much on the stage & everyone enjoys him. He is very correct of course. His riding suit is "a dream". He is funny. In fact all the dialogue is very bright & witty. Gladys Wallis is the cutest little school girl with curls & very much in love with an idiotic Englishman, till his beard is shaved off - when she laughs at him. There is an absent-minded professor - who forgets everything - and his pretty & stunning young wife. Miss Adams has quite a tragic part which she acts beautifully & ideally. She grows lovlier & lovlier. We walked home by the Herald Bldg. & saw the big presses, but they were not working yet. - Quite ready for bed and February 28th Friday. slept very well. Got down for breakfast at 9:15 & found Gordon talking to Claude. We chatted a while and then went to breakfast & met Gordon & Madden at the League
later (after a pleasant walk up Fifth Avenue.) Ed. Nolan also happened in & going thro' the exhibit with the comments of these young architects was quite inter- esting. It was a fine exhibition, we all thought. I liked especially the sketches for decorations to Hotel Manhattan. Elihu Vedder's sketches for the Congressional Library. An angel baptistry. A burnt wood large panel (or 3) of adoration of Joan of Arc. The numerous casts of Gen'l Sherman statue competition (I tried to take some photographs - with very doubtful success, I imagine.) Some drawings of Louis Rhead's "Winter driving Fall" and "Spring driving Winter" (very bright & decorative - also some swan & peacock decorations by the same artist) Claude's book plates were the best there, too. A lot of interesting architectural
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