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...Listening In" has many exciting moments. Indeed, as Jonathan Cumberland remarks to Mr. Morrison in the Prologue, "The action begins the moment you move in here." A house abandoned for twenty years lends manifold opportunities for holding the audience breathless, and if the thrills, like those of a roller-coaster, generally bring up short with a laugh, no one is the worse for it. Even the announced intention of the mysterious Mr. Morrison at the outset to prove that all spiritualism is the work of human hands does not impair the goose-fleshy qualities of Bleeker Hall. The fact that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/21/1923 | See Source »

...college has just been established on Coaster's Island, in Newport harbor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/24/1884 | See Source »

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