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...tennist, after Ellsworth Vines turned professional. As picked by the Pulitzer Prize judges, Maxwell Anderson's Both Your Houses might be called Play of the Year. However, it developed early trouble at the boxoffice. George M. Cohan's performances in Pigeons & People and Ah Wilderness ranked high at both ends of the season, but represented no zenith to that talented actor's career...
...Treasure and Jewel of Majesty, had gone to his Nirvana, aged 60, in the Potala, his massive fortress-palace in Lhasa high on the bleak plateau of Tibet. Dead, some said, of poisoning, was the 13th reincarnation of Buddha, absolute ruler of Tibet and of many a Buddhist elsewhere, Ah-Wang-Lo-Pu-Tsang-To-Pu-Tan -Chia-Ta-Chi-Chai- Wang-Chu-Chueh-Le-Lang-Chieh, otherwise known as Ngag-Wang Lobsang Thubden Gya-Tsho. From Buddhists who traveled up from India in the 7th Century, over torrential rivers and through snow-swept passes of the Himalayas, the Tibetans...
...Ah King" deserves all the praise given it. At the same time, clearly, the stories are only stories. They are related like tales over mulled ale, or over a shot of Scotch, depending on the reader's taste in such things, and leave an impression of leisurely chuckling over life, with some admixture of the entomologists insect-on-the-pin curiosity. Unquestionably, no one will be purged by this book, nor will he mount through it to an ivory tower; but nearly everyone will enjoy it, and nearly everyone will remember for at least an hour after reading it that...
...Ah, Wilderness!, Her Master's Voice, She Loves Me Not, Sailor, Beware!, Growing Pains...
...written "Interpretations: 1932-33"; Willard Huntington Wright '10 (S. S. Van Dyne), who has written "The Dragon Murder Case"; Ogden Nash '24, who has written "Happy Days," Kermit Roosevelt '12, who (with others) has written "Hunting Trails in Three Continents," and Eugene O'Neill ocC. '15, who has written "Ah Wilderness" and "Days Without...