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Selling orders from all parts of the U. S. last week continued to converge on the New York Stock Exchange. Old rumors and new were again in circulation. Uneasiness was caused by the insistent story that something was amiss with Caldwell & Co., potent Southern house. A definite, frank statement from the Nashville Clearing House finally showed that this rumor was justified, but the fear exaggerated...
...loses the race and his ship. But with the pearls the dying man gave him he buys back the boat and sets out for the pearl-island. Schultz hears of it and follows. While Barker is on the ocean-floor investigating, cannibals attack his ship. Sensing that something is amiss Barker cuts the connecting lines on his diving suit and with commendable sureness of foot and direction walks to shore. He wanders about dazed, unable to get his suit off, and eventually stumbles upon the cannibals who are about to make a meal of Daisy and his ship's mate...
...that most of his fellow-residents of this Athens-on-the-Charles have joined the Vagabond in adding to the unemployment problem, he feels that a few suggestions for filling up the vacant hours may not be amiss. A successful evening demands a good meal to start it off, and his years of wandering have taken the Vagabond into many and curious places in search of the best in comestibles. The two which rank highest in his estimation are Cann's, where all kinds of sea food are at their best, and the Olympia, noted for its various delectable concoctions...
...first states a fact with which all thinking members of the Club are in full accord, that the Club's legitimate field of choice is among good plays which have not the box-office attraction requisite for professional production. "But in default of such, a Liliom would not be amiss." The very next sentence strongly recommends "avoiding the re-hashing of box-office successes." Does the CRIMSON mean by this that Liliom was not a box-office success? Or would the Club's production of it not be a re-hash...
...Galsworthy and A. A. Milne, is not explained. The CRIMSON further allows that "by avoiding musical comedy or the re-hashing of box-office successes, the Dramatic Club escapes the stigma" of producing "amateur theatricals;" at the same time, however, the editorial ventures that a "Liliom" would not be amiss. The conclusion would seem to be that principles are all very well, so long as nobody applies them: that the Dramatic Club may have principles, but that it must avoid a Policy...