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Alice was about to move in with a new family. The famed Lewis Carroll Wonderland manuscript, whose sale at public auction in 1928 set a new manuscript high ($75,259), will be auctioned for the second time next fortnight in Manhattan. Alice lived for 65 years with the real-life Alice (the late Alice Pleasance Har-greaves), then went at auction to Bookman Dr. Abraham S. W. Rosenbach, who shortly sold her to Victor Talking Machine Co. Founder Eldridge R. Johnson, who died last November.
Hamlet strode into a new Broadway record. Edwin Booth had played him in Manhattan for 100 performances; John Barrymore had...
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