A Parody Outline of History

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Author: Donald Ogden Stewart ISBN: 9781465501318
Publisher: Library of Alexandria Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Donald Ogden Stewart
ISBN: 9781465501318
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint:
Language: English

A CRITICAL SURVEY OF AMERICAN HISTORY In the Manner of William Lyon Phelps On a memorable evening in the year 1904 I witnessed the opening performance of Maude Adams in “Peter Pan”. Nothing in the world can describe the tremendous enthusiasm of that night! I shall never forget the moment when Peter came to the front of the stage and asked the audience if we believed in fairies. I am happy to say that I was actually the first to respond. Leaping at once out of my seat, I shouted “Yes— Yes!” To my intense pleasure the whole house almost instantly followed my example, with the exception of one man. This man was sitting directly in front of me. His lack of enthusiasm was to me incredible. I pounded him on the back and shouted, “Great God, man, are you alive! Wake up! Hurrah for the fairies! Hurrah!” Finally he uttered a rather feeble “Hurrah!” Childe Roland to the dark tower came. That was my first meeting with that admirable statesman Woodrow Wilson, and I am happy to state that from that night we became firm friends. When Mr. Wilson was inaugurated in 1913 I called on him at the White House, taking with me some members of my Yale drama class. Each one of us had an edition of the president’s admirable “History of the American People”, and I am glad to say that he was kind enough to autograph each of the ten volumes for all of us. Early in Mr. Wilson’s second term as president, just before the break with Germany, I was sitting in the quiet of my library rereading Browning’s “Cristina”. When I came to the third stanza I leaped to my feet— the thing seemed incredible, but here before my eyes was actually Browning’s prophetic message to America in regard to the submarine sinkings

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A CRITICAL SURVEY OF AMERICAN HISTORY In the Manner of William Lyon Phelps On a memorable evening in the year 1904 I witnessed the opening performance of Maude Adams in “Peter Pan”. Nothing in the world can describe the tremendous enthusiasm of that night! I shall never forget the moment when Peter came to the front of the stage and asked the audience if we believed in fairies. I am happy to say that I was actually the first to respond. Leaping at once out of my seat, I shouted “Yes— Yes!” To my intense pleasure the whole house almost instantly followed my example, with the exception of one man. This man was sitting directly in front of me. His lack of enthusiasm was to me incredible. I pounded him on the back and shouted, “Great God, man, are you alive! Wake up! Hurrah for the fairies! Hurrah!” Finally he uttered a rather feeble “Hurrah!” Childe Roland to the dark tower came. That was my first meeting with that admirable statesman Woodrow Wilson, and I am happy to state that from that night we became firm friends. When Mr. Wilson was inaugurated in 1913 I called on him at the White House, taking with me some members of my Yale drama class. Each one of us had an edition of the president’s admirable “History of the American People”, and I am glad to say that he was kind enough to autograph each of the ten volumes for all of us. Early in Mr. Wilson’s second term as president, just before the break with Germany, I was sitting in the quiet of my library rereading Browning’s “Cristina”. When I came to the third stanza I leaped to my feet— the thing seemed incredible, but here before my eyes was actually Browning’s prophetic message to America in regard to the submarine sinkings

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