Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...operatic version of a sixteenth century "pick up" in the best New Yorkese of the twentieth century. Johnny Dooley carried off the comedy honors in this, and the singing was by far the best of the evening. Another Dooley production, his strong man act, was quite a bright spot until it died from over-exposure. Joe Cook's chief contribution to the evening's entertainment, and one which did much to justify his headliner abilities, was his interpretative reading of an incident in the life of little Johnny Skunk or perhaps it was one of the other Little Folks. Miss...
...framing of elaborate plots. Montgomery Higginson's "The Word of a Friend" builds up with tolerable success the form of Bill the college waster, but fails dismally in the denounement which is designated to dispose of him; and Francis Fawsett's "Fisherman's Luck", in spite of occasional bright phrases, shows neither wit enough to redeem the broad burlesque in the lay figures of Waterly Meadows and Sir Tenterhook Weathervane nor invention enough to cover the threadbare situation in which these persons take part...
...three millions for a projection planetarium, a dome 75 feet in diameter atop a five-story building designed as an astronomical centre for scholars, amateurs, sightseers of the whole country. Searchlights, meticulously aimed and synchronized, will cast into a night-blue field with a perfect illusion of limitless space, bright images of the moon, the sun, the planets, stars and Milky Way. In 26 minutes instead of 26,000 years the incredulous may behold a complete succession of the equinoxes...
...doubt it is quite natural that Americans should infer, from the immense and growing attendance at American universities and colleges, that nowhere on earth are educational prospects so bright as they are in this country. Have we not 780 colleges, with 265,564 students in them? What more could he asked But it appears not only that Dr. Abraham Flexner, secretary of the General Education Board, asks a good deal more but that, in his view, Americans do not value education, and that conditions favorable to scholarship do not prevail in this country. That is to say, we have...
...Grand Central Station about 11 a.m. ; and sitting across from me was a most distinguished looking old gentleman reading TIME. He sat up very straight, holding the magazine before him; and I was glad to see that several people on my side of the car were attracted by the bright red border of TIME'S cover, and were straining to read the caption under the picture of Mrs. Nicholas Longworth on the cover. The old gentleman seemed to be reading straight through, page by page, just as I always do, and it was quite evident that his enjoyment...