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As bravely as a match flickering in the night, the Paris L'Ordre sought cheer for mankind. "Visit the Hostel of Three Mallets in the Latin Quarter," it advised. There, in subterranean chambers, the visitor sees medieval instruments of torture. St. Catherine's Wheel is most gruesome. It...
Playwrights Williams (The Glass Menagerie) and Windham are soapboxing for Life, Growth, Fulfillment and the Future. They set these abstractions up in an English country house, and arrange a match against Stagnation, Snobbishness, the Status Quo, Prudishness and Decay. On Life's side, along with a young flyer, is...
"Mrs. Richardson advocates the formation of a political society with exclusive feminine membership for 'women's rule'. . . . Her dissatisfaction with our Southern administration has led her to forget the bloody dungeons of Catherine of Russia, the uneasy heads about the court and country of Elizabeth of England...
Our young hero, who has somewhere picked up an accent that is neither Canadian, cockney, nor English, is opposed by his foster-father's sister (Catherine Willard), a "congenital virgin," and is not very elaborately received by the object of his attentions, either: she has "acquired her virginity," but she...
The Canteen's noisy weekends are coolly run by matronly Mrs. Harry Lee Virden, an Episcopal Army chaplain's wife, who assigns classic-minded musicians to practice rooms on the second floor, and jam fans to the third floor. The resultant uproar from the 28 unsoundproofed cubbyholes usually...