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THE BIG SHOW by McCready Huston. Scribner's, New York, $2. This is a novel of a man whose boyhood was spent with a circus and whose manhood was passed in the contemplation of circuses of many kinds, including his own life. His viewpoint sets him both in and out...
"We devote," he wrote, "vast departments of government and great agencies of commerce and industry, science and invention, to decreasing the hours of work, but we devote comparatively little to improving the hours of recreation. We associate joy with leisure. We have great machinery to produce joy, some of it...
The Field God. Those who expected Paul Green's second play to be like his first this season, In Abraham's Bosom (TIME, Jan. 17), a contemplation of the North Carolina Negro, may have been surprised to find him now gazing with catholic compassion upon the tragedy of...
Sunday has benerally been a dull day for the Vagabond. In the days of childhood, the seventh day was associated with interminable and dreary calls on friends of the family, where an incredibly hard and stiff-backed chair was usually provided for him, from which perch he was left to...
Much has been said about the joys and felicities of spring, about the bursting buds, the gentle zephyrs the livelier iris on the burnished dove, etc, etc.--usually when March winds were still tossing hats gaily about the Yard. But no one can say more that these things are a...