<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> In the hands of a rococo Yankee named Clyde Fitch, the American stage came of age with a gasp of scandalized shock</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">All through the 1920s, eager young emigrants left the towns and farms of America and headed for New York City. One of them recalls the magnetism of the life that pulled him there.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">In the years between the dedication of the Statue of Liberty and the First World War, the Divine Sarah was, for hundreds of thousands of Americans, the single most compelling embodiment of the French republic.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">HISTORY’S MOST PHOTOGENIC LABOR dispute lasted 30 days, spread to eight cities, closed 37 plays, and finally won performers some respect.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Hal Holbrook has lived with him nearly as long as Samuel Clemens did, and he explains why Twain still has the power to delight and to disturb.</span></p>
