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Title: Reminiscences of William Wetmore Story, the American sculptor and author; being incidents and anecdotes chronologically arranged, together with an account of his association with famous people and his principal works in literature and sculpture
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Phillips, Mary Elizabeth, 1857-1945
Subjects: Story, William Wetmore, 1819-1895
Publisher: Chicago, New York, Rand McNally & Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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desthe marks of a literary man; works of art, bric-a-brac, and trophies of travel in all parts of theworld. One of the chiefest pleasures in receivingan invitation to the Story home was the opportu-nity it afforded of drinking in this atmosphere ofbeauty and artistic taste. Mr. Story had one of the larg-est rooms madeinto a theater, fitted up with a stage, drop curtain,footlights, and scenery. We are told that Mrs,Story made an excellent stage manager, director,and prompter; that Mr. Story was an actor ofmerit beyond the amateur. English, Italian, andFrench were the languages of the performanceswhich took place in this little theater. Heremany musical compositions were first heard bythe public, and many little theatrical piecesfirst submitted to its approval. Among thelatter was a play of Sir Edmund Mallets, TheOrdeal, performed when the ambassador wasan attache to the British embassy, and in whichthe author himself took a part. Here havebeen read aloud to sympathizing listeners, both
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PALAZZO BARBERINI. 99 before and after publication, many of the hostsown poems; his original plays also were some-times tried on this stage before appearing inprint. In later days this long suite of beautiful roomsconstituted a congenial neutral ground where theRomans themselves could forget the dissensionsthat ordinarily separated the adherents of theVatican from those of the Quirinal. Political orreligious differences were forgotten or ignored themoment one crossed this threshold and encoun-tered the courteous and amiable host passingfrom guest to guest, giving as a hearty welcometo the papal Blacks as to the royal Whites,and imparting an atmosphere of cordiality in alaughing, merry fashion that caused him to becalled // swipatico Americano^ The admirationand fondness of so many different elements ofsociety for the artist tended to make his largedrawing-room a place where Protestant clergy-men residing in the Italian capital might meetwith eminent prelates of the Roman Church.The ve

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