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Title: Valentine's manual of old New York
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, Henry Collins, 1862-1961
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Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Valentine's Manual Inc.
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so rapidly that theywere the laughing topic of the town and all sorts of jokeson them were in order. In the play of Richelieu it willbe remembered that the Cardinal boldly faces his enemies,and Booth was so grand in this, defying them, and sweep-ing his hand in the air around his frightened ward he tellsthem that if they enter the charmed circle he has so drawnaround her he will hurl at them the curse of Rome. In the burlesque of the play Fox produced a lump ofchalk as big as a watermelon, and handling it with bothhands drew an imaginary ring around the harassed girl,imaginary, for it made no mark, and then, imitatingBooths grand style, said, Step but one foot within yoncharmed circle and I hurl at you an Erie injunction, atwhich they all fled so precipitately that they carried awayparts of the scenery in their rush. But one day the tables were turned on Fisk by the in-vestigating committee getting an injunction from an up-State Judge dissolving all previous injunctions and en- (62 )
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