Oh yeah, I remembered I wanted to post this clipping from the online newspaper archive!
Some american actors and actresses review “The Phantom of the Opera” by Gaston Leroux
in “The Sun” on March 11th 1911, since it was just translated into English.
All think it is very suspensful, some of them romantic. Christie McDonald had the same reaction most of us have after reading the book for the first time, she really wants to visit the Palais Garnier now and search for the hidden passages…
And we can already see the two camps forming:
“Dear, dear Christine, the heroine, I was so glad when she was safe with Raoul at last.” -Marguerite Clark
“Fate was so unkind that I hoped poor Eric would have had a happier end. I think he is a most pathetic figure. For all his gruesome personality I think as kindly of him as of the more tender Cyrano.” -Hazel Dawn
BOOK STARTERS VOL.27 ( PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ) ( GASTON LEROUX )
❛ If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me. ❜
❛ All I wanted was to be loved for myself. ❜
❛ I have tasted all the happiness the world can offer. ❜
❛ Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? ❜
❛ You have a heart that can hold the entire empire of the world. ❜
❛ Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you. ❜
❛ Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. ❜
❛ You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! ❜
❛ Are people so unhappy when they love? — Yes, when they love and are not sure of being loved. ❜
❛ Your soul is a beautiful thing. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept tonight. ❜
❛ Blood!…Blood!… That’s a good thing! ❜
❛ Now I want to live like everybody else. I want to have a life like everybody else. ❜
❛ You will be the happiest of women. And we will sing, all by ourselves, till we swoon away with delight. ❜
❛ I should be as gentle as a lamb; and you could do anything with me that you pleased. ❜
❛ I am going to die of love, I am dying of love. That’s how it is. I loved you so. I still love you so. ❜
❛ I am dying of love for her, I tell you! If only you knew how beautiful she was when she let me kiss her. ❜
❛ He fills me with horror but I do not hate him. How can I hate him? ❜
❛ Holy angel, in Heaven blessed, my spirit longs with thee to rest. ❜
❛ Nothing is colder or more dead than my heart. ❜
❛ I had loved an angel and now I despise a woman. ❜
❛ Our lives are one masked ball. ❜
❛ Why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing? ❜
❛ He would commit murder for me. ❜
❛ If I don’t save her from the hands of that humbug, she is lost. But I shall save her. ❜
❛ We will go from here together or die together. ❜
❛ Your fear, your terror, all of that is just love and love of the most exquisite kind, the kind which people do not admit even to themselves. The kind that gives you a thrill, when you think of it. ❜
❛ Destiny has chained you to me forever. ❜
❛ You must never ask me that. ❜
❛ Are you afraid that you will change your mind? ❜
❛ You must come and fetch me in my dressing room at midnight exactly. ❜
“Oh, the wonderful speeches they made
to each other and the eternal vows they exchanged! They played at
hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really
their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very,
very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them.”
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