Strange Stories (33 page)

On the other hand, there was a Do You Know? section. “Do You Know,” ran the first interrogation, “that Sweeney Todd has broken all records for this theatre since it was built?” 

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 Making him wear a three-cornered hat!” the old man had exclaimed with derision. “And Mrs. Lovat with her hair powdered!” 

“David Garrick used to play Macbeth in knee breeches,” I replied. Dramatic critics may often, as in my case, know little, but they all know that.