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Updated: May 10, 2025
When an artist comes tae a new country wi' sae much talk aboot him as there was in America concerning me, there's always folk that tak' it as a challenge. "Eh!" they'll say. "So there's Harry Lauder coming, is there? And he's the funniest wee man in the halls, is he? He'd make a graven image laugh, would he? Well, I'll be seeing! Maybe he can make me laugh maybe no. We'll just be seeing."
"These big concerns are offering all sorts of attractions to the shopping public which we couldn't afford to imitate, even on a small scale reading-rooms and play-rooms and gramophones and Heaven knows what. People don't care to buy half a pound of sugar nowadays unless they can listen to Harry Lauder and have the latest Australian cricket scores ticked off before their eyes.
Two hundred picked men were accordingly sent forward to reconnoitre under Colonel Lauder; and at noon, the ground having been reported clear in front, the whole column advanced. The pass of Killiecrankie is now almost as familiar to the Southron as to the Highlander.
Brigadier Ramsay, with the regiments of O'Farrel, Mackay, Lauder, Leven and Monroe, were ordered to the right of the whole army, to line some hedges and hollow ways on the farther side of the village of Lare.
Our party spent a pleasant day as guests of Sir Harry Lauder at his estate in Scotland. We soon crossed the English Channel to the continent, for I wanted to make a special pilgrimage to Bavaria. This would be my only chance, I felt, to visit the great Catholic mystic, Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth. Years earlier I had read an amazing account of Therese.
Let us dig a little deeper into the gold-mine. It is very touching to see the confidence of Mr Lauder in the virtue of his fellow-countrymen. According to him, "no touch of immorality exists in the true character of a Scotsman."
I rushed to the door, and there was a porter, holding out a telegram. I took it and tore it open. And I knew why I had felt as I had the day before. I shall never forget what I read: "Captain John Lauder killed in action, December 28. Official. War Office." It had gone to Mrs. Lauder at Dunoon first, and she had sent it on to me. That was all it said.
If we understand this correctly, and we have honestly tried to do so, it involves a complete misunderstanding as to the nature of drama, and means that Mr Lauder thinks that its whole purpose is to provide star acting parts, and that, since plays cannot be written in which all the characters are star parts, drama is a poor sort of stuff of no great interest.
Aweel, I was not so young as I had been, and Mrs. Lauder you ken that she was travelling with me? In the harbor of Honolulu there was a German gunboat, the Geier, that had run there for shelter not long since, and had still left a day or two, under the orders from Washington, to decide whether she would let herself be interned or not.
He led me toward one of the guns, where the sweating crew was especially active, as it seemed to me. They grinned at me as they saw me coming. "Here's old Harry Lauder come to take a crack at them himself," I heard one man say to another. "Good for him! The more the merrier!" answered his mate. He was an American would ye no know it from his speech? I was trembling with eagerness.
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