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Show MARK TWAIN IN A HAZE. Hit Manager Tells of Effects of a London Lon-don Fog. Mark Twain's former lecture manager mana-ger tells this story of an entertainment entertain-ment given by the humorist In London during a heavy fog: "One night The Queen's concert rooms were like a smokehouse, and 1 snw from my cnalr in the royal box a shadowy dress-cuat, supported by a pair of shadowy trousers, trou-sers, girdled by the faint halo of the Ineffectual footlights. A voice wan In the nlr, but It was difficult to locate It A-lth any degree of certainty. The apparently headless trunk of the lee-'turcr lee-'turcr told whnt he knew of our fellow-savneca, fellow-savneca, the Sandwich Islanders; and at Intervals out of the depths ascended the mtiUk'd murmur of an audience Invisible In-visible to the naked eye. Mark began his lecture on this occasion wilt a delicate ulluslon to the weather, and fold: 'Perhaps you cnu't see r:e, but I am hero!' " |