June 8, 1909
The Rev. F. E. Mortimer called last evening. He sails on the Lusitania Wednesday and will be away during the summer.
My nephew Harold Beekman was in town this afternoon and looked in for a while.
I have decided to take a trip to the Golden West and am shaping things to that End. I leave next Saturday at noon by way of the Newyork Central Railroad.
June 9, 1909
Blanche and I braved a heavy, misting night to see Hamlet at the old Academy of Music. E. H. Sothern was the Prince and Julia Marlowe, his somewhat large feminine foil, played Ophelia. It is not needful to make differing degrees and kinds in comparison, in order to say that it was a refined, excellent presentation and highly appreciated. How Shakespeare's free, firm and felicitous handling of incident and character carries through the severest test and strain! It is fortunate to have so great a tradition and standard as a bulwark for the stage.
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