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...Older politicians] cannot eternally bluff and befool the electorate, for it is neither as stupid nor as avaricious as the pre-War generation imagines. If the real facts of the case are properly presented to them they will know what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: British Youth | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...many critics commented, the title of this opus is apt. If Southern dialect were the only requisite of great drama, Not So Fast would be another Hamlet?but that is the most that can be said in its favor. The action concerns the usual city fellers who atempt to befool the honest but apparently boobish guardian of the two girl orphans and their fortune. Of course, he befools them instead. Allegorical triumph of virtue. Curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jun. 4, 1923 | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

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