Sir William Dunn

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    “‘Come, walk like this,’ the dancer said,
    ‘Stick you your toes—stick in your head,
    Stalk on with quick, galvanic tread—
    Your fingers thus extend;
    The attitude’s considered quaint,’”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “There was a young lady called Gloria
    Who was had by Sir Gerald Du Maurier
    And then by six men
    And Sir Gerald again
    And the band of the Waldorf-Astoria.”
    —Anonymous.

    “We, in the ages lying
    In the buried past of the earth,
    Built Nineveh with our sighing,
    And Babel itself with our mirth;”
    —Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy (1844–1881)

    “Harry’s an artist without an art ... groping for the right lever, for the means with which to express himself.”
    —Jo Eisinger, and Jules Dassin. Adam Dunn (Hugh Marlowe)