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Show Haggard Reads Obituary. Rider Haggard tells a good story about the premature publication of an obituary notice of himself. Hearing f that a ballet based on "Sho" was to bo produced In Hungary, he wrote asking ask-ing for programmes and photographs. A reply came that tho manager was shocked at tho request, for ho had I believed tho Illustrious Herr Author to bo dead. Long obituaries had appeared ap-peared in the Hungarian Journals. Mr. Haggard then wrote and asked that a contradiction might be circulated, circu-lated, but tho manager reported that tho editors refused to insert it, as they believed It to be an unscrupulous attempt to obtain a free advertisement for tho ballot. |