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Detective stories are really the only form of literature which strikes a common chord in the hearts of all readers. They are read by the intelligentsia, the middle classes, and the great unwashed. Under the circumstances, it is strange that there are so few good mystery stories. Sir Conan Doyle has deserted Sherlock Holmes for spiritualism. Cyril McNeile puts out a good "Bull-Dog Drummond" story every now and then, but not often enough. There are quite a few books put out with such appetizing titles as "The Red House Mystery", but they are not mysterious. The production...
...light which surrounds the world-weary opera singer. She, herself, is removed from reality by the dramatist, but these men and women who come into contact with her are very real. Capek projects them with a tenuous sort of power, following up pathos or amusement with a modern chord of dissonance which startles, arrests, and then intrigues the imagination. The ending of the act is fine in its restraint...
...Island home radiant male and female butterflies foment his yearnings, having ideals to exchange for free board and lodging. Willie's old- fashioned mother sets them all down as parasites and summons Willie's boyhood sweetheart from the Middle West in the hope of once more striking a responsive chord...
...Hoover, President of the American Child Health Association, and Secretary of Commerce, to Mr. Coolidge explained the plans of the Association to devote May Day to child health and welfare problems. Mr. Coolidge replied: "I wish the organizations every success in an effort which will touch so sympathetic a chord in every American heart...
Subtle imagination, clever cratory, logical debate--all are too mentally fatiguing to be really popular. This true-spirited war-cry of the Copelanders will stretch a sympathetic chord with many who are tired of facts, tired of figures, tired of argument. And intrinsically, this slogan embodies what many will at once recognize as the ideal popular platform...