BETWEEN ROUNDS by O.HENRY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 25 April 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
1905 as seen through the windows of Mrs. Murphy's boarding house by O.Henry. A lady screams that her six year old Mikey is missing. The McCasky's are upstairs throwing kitchenware at each other. Others are sitting on the porch steps oblivious to it all. And the cop walking his beat knows better than to interfere with any of it.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 Classic Short stories and tales. This is your host |
| 0:34.6 | John Hagenorn and today a great story from O Henry called Between Rounds. First a |
| 0:40.7 | little background on O Henry. I'm going to give you a couple of paragraphs from an article written by Judith Dunford back in 1990 about O'Henry. |
| 0:48.0 | It was called the man who invented Manhattan. |
| 0:51.0 | For most of this century, she wrote, and often against the starkest evidence New York City has persisted and seen itself as |
| 0:57.8 | Baghdad on the subway an Arabian night swirl, motion, tough characters with soft hearts, soft characters |
| 1:05.5 | with sturdy hearts, tinsul, tears, and laughter. |
| 1:09.6 | This is largely O'Henry's doing. |
| 1:11.9 | It was his stories. |
| 1:13.2 | His portrait of the city in the decade ending in 1910. |
| 1:16.9 | It's shop girls named Delia, Dulsey. |
| 1:20.2 | It's derelict's and cops. |
| 1:22.0 | It's struggling, forever loyal couples. |
| 1:24.0 | It's ambitious artist and show girls. |
| 1:26.0 | It's neighborhood streets and parks. |
| 1:28.0 | It's boarding houses and furnished rooms. |
| 1:31.0 | It's sports and swells that gave New York much of the jaunty, plucky, |
| 1:36.1 | rafish image it wears to this day. |
| 1:40.0 | Oh Henry's stories of this New York go on forever. |
| 1:42.8 | By 1920 nearly 5 million copies of his books had been sold in the United States. |
| 1:47.8 | There have been dozens of radio and stage dramatizations |
| 1:50.5 | and motion picture versions of his stories. |
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