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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...involved and never completely formulated plan whereby "the clubs should gradually allow themselves to be absorbed into the University by the natural process of becoming themselves residential quads, and so retaining their historical identify at the same time that they showed their devotion to the University by an act of supreme sacrifice." How them, should selections be made? There is the obvious objection that all the evils of the club system would be only magnified by such a plan if the clubs pursued their present method of election. Wilson's solution, implicit though never spoken, was to make intellectual...
...Arno Dosch-Fleurot of the New York World thought that he had ferreted out truth. According to his long explicit cable the Tardieu "Program of Realization" will be put through by flaunting the "American" slogan "Prosperity!", and will feature creation of a National Economic Council with extraordinary power to act in stimulating French production and commerce. Hitherto the notorious bickering of French politicians has hamstrung many important measures of a purely economic sort. According to M. Dosch-Fleurot, the proposed National Economic Council would have right of way over Parliamentary bickerers in many important respects...
...Entrusting the government to stern, ruthless General Pera Zickovitch who will act pro tempore as Prime Minister...
When Lawyer Tulkinghorn, starting to make good his threats, does not pay for her spying, Hortense shoots him. Lady Dedlock is suspected and dies on her lover's grave; the marriage bells ring in the last act...
There are fine scenes, fine moments in the play. The third act set, a huge room which suggests the wide staircases and the servants' hall behind it, has a dark, archaic grandeur...