Sharp diary 1917 page 365. Sunday 23 December 1917 - New York
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Sunday 23rd of December 1917
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Worked all the morning but didn’t do much — an fairly stuck in that beastly Introduction. If I write it many times more I shall be as bad as Plato and deserve Butler’s strictures!1 Lunched with Glenn and had a nice time, singing a couple of songs afterwards and discussing English politics with him. Mrs Glenn very nicely asked us to use her house for lunch every day the school is on which touched me very much. I shall take her at her word. Mrs Clapp came to tea — Maud made it in my room — and sang the Bonnie House of Airlie — not a very remarkable tune. Then Maud and I dined at the Brevoort Hotel and went to the neighbouring theatre — the Lewisohn’s having given us tickets. We arrived rather late having lost ourselves on the way! The play was Pippa Passes.1 It came off better on the stage than I had expected. The scenes were pretty and the acting good. But I shall never get used to stage elocution. The perpetual sing-song, the voice wandering aimlessly up & down the scale irritates me — I suppose because it is meaningless — a mere trick, like the [....?] "rubato".Location
USA : New York : New York [40.7143528,-74.0059731]
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