What is "that heavenly coffee, Better coffee a Rockefeller's (or millionaire's or billionaire's) money can't buy"?Ĭhock full o'Nuts is an American brand of coffee that originated from a chain of New York City coffee shops. Throwback Thursday Trivia Question from Yesterday Bruce All Rights ReservedĬreate, Then Take a Break - Free Downloads Create, Then Take a Break - Apple Create, Then Take a Break - Barnes and Noble Create, Then Take a Break - Kobo Create, Then Take a Break - Smashwords Create, Then Take a Break - Can Be Read Online Here at No Cost: Smashwords Online Reader NEW BLOG - davidbrucebooks: FREE PDFs On being told that the two men were actually African-American, he replied, “I don’t care what they are-they can wear dark makeup like everyone else.” And in Aida he was shocked to see that two Nubian slaves looked white. The opera was Rosenkavalier, and Sir Rudolf decided against portraying a Viennese widow as having three children-two white and one black. In his 5000 Nights at the Opera, an autobiography, he writes, “As we walked in, there was a sudden hush, which I greatly enjoyed.” Also by the way, Sir Rudolf did much to integrate the Metropolitan Opera, but at least once he denied a black child a job. Monteux replied, “But we are colored-we are pink.” By the way, during the Jim Crow days, Sir Rudolf Bing took African-American diva Leontyne Price to dinner in an Atlanta hotel’s restaurant. However, a black woman told them, “We only served colored.” Mr. During the Jim Crow days, Pierre Monteux and Sir Rudolf Bing were riding in the Georgia countryside when they stopped to have tea.I refer, of course, to Confederate money.” Money cannot brighten the hearth nor repair the portals of a broken home. It is not money that will mend a broken heart or reassemble the fragments of a dream. Hershfield said, “It does liven up the old place, doesn’t it?” 4) Judge Kelly of Chicago told a jury in the early 20th century: “My friends, money is not all. Because an important member had died, black crepe had been hung on the windows. 3) Harry Hershfield once passed the gloomy building that housed the Union League Club in New York City. While walking along the street one day, he met a bore who asked him, “Well, Jerrold, what’s going on?” Mr.
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He replied, “Capital! Capital! Where’s the lavatory?” Immediately following the play, he was asked his opinion of the production. Sir Henry Irving once sat through an amateur production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night-a production that had no intermissions.Marie Kean, who was playing the First Witch, once noticed that some schoolboys were hiding out in the boys’ restroom instead of watching the play, so she scared them back into the theater by marching into the restroom in full makeup and hissing at them, “Get back in there!” Judi Dench once performed in a production of Macbeth that was played straight through without an intermission.I only went to school half time-when they were teaching the writing. Behan replied, “Message? What do you think I am … a bloody telegram boy?” And when someone asked him if he had read a particular book, he replied, “I need sympathy. A reporter once asked Irish playwright Brendan Behan, “What is the message of your play?” Mr.