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...event of political rather than publishing importance was last week's appearance of the first issue of The New Outlook edited by Alfred Emanuel Smith.- Theodore Roosevelt had thundered to the country from this same editorial chair and, before him, Lyman Abbott and Henry Ward Beecher. Now readers cocked ears to a voice it had heard often in the Press and over the "raddio." Introduced briefly by Publisher Frank Aloysius Tichenor, Editor Smith plunged into a three-page editorial opening the magazine as follows: "The New Outlook will check up once a month on what is taking place politically...
...produce the best of those submitted by students, the author would gain a kind of experience especially valuable at a certain period of development. The very fact that in the past there have emerged from the student body such dramatists as Eugene O'Neil, Edward Sheldon, Sidney Howard, George Abbott, and Phillip Barry should spur present writers, or even those who merely feel the ambition to write a play, to at least an attempt...
...England under Queen Anne," Professor Abbott, Emerson...
Lilly Turner (written and produced by Philip Dunning & George Abbott). To anyone interested in U. S. colloquialism is recommended Gasoline Bill Baker's "Pipes From Pitchmen" colyum in The Billboard. It is devoted to the affairs of itinerant vendors of medicines ("med"), penknives ("shivs"), soap ("gummy"), periodicals ("the sheet"), etc. Not so diverting by half is the latest offering of Playwrights Dunning & Abbott (Broadway) which is concerned with a travelling medicine show...
Harvard's President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 75, was summoned to appear in a Plymouth, Mass, traffic court. Charge: cutting out of line at high speed...