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Everywhere editors sought some comment not too banal upon Kipling, his medal, his words...
What could be better than to start my wanderings accompanied by strains of sweet music? Not indeed should I desire the presence of a band to blare its fulsome farewells into my ears; the true aesthetic vagabond must ever shrink from occasions of such banal blasts and boomings. But at 10 o'clock this morning I shall be in the Music Building to hear the finer, purer strains of Brahms' Violin Sonata when it is played in Professor Spalding's Music...
...Because I say that most of the actor's interpretation must come from within himself I do not wish it to be thought that I consider of little moment the work being done by schools of drama. It is now almost banal to say that technique is something which must be learned and then completely forgotten. It has been said so many times. What we need to remember is that technique must be studied and made completely a part of one's acting before it can be forgotten...
...beneath rather violent verbiage. Her stage is, to quote the critic. "A paradise of leg shows"; her literature "as dead at the Hittite empire," her press, "the garbage can of American journalism." Indeed, to read Mr. Angoff's essay is to listen for long pages to a booming, often banal barrage of rather heavy wit. He buries Boston and he does so with a bang...
...production of the play interesting from a point of view both technical and broadly introspective. For its continued refusal to exploit the commonplace, the Dramatic Club deserves and will receive the thanks of those who believe that the stage can serve a somewhat higher purpose than that of banal amusement...