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...contracts with 24 State institutions to care for young offenders. Declared Dr. Van Waters: "Some jails in the Southern and Southwestern districts are old and unfit. . . . Supervision of inmates is in the hands of trusties. . . . These jails present a situation of filth and misery impossible to convey. . . . The best . . . [reformatory] employs disciplinary measures such as silence at meals, marching, formal routine and flogging; the worst is not to be distinguished from a prison...
...which were grouped seven maidens in red tights. This performance was a caricature and profanation -unintended, of course, but none the less a profanation of great music. There is hardly any music more self-sufficient than Bach's or more beyond the power of words or pictures to convey. It is the purest and most absolute music, altogether sufficient unto itself. It should be held sacred from meddling. . . . There should be limits to a practice by which dancers, who apparently are without feeling for the true essence of music, may rush in where angels would fear to tread...
Brass Ankle. It takes a Southerner to convey adequately the potential horror and tragedy that lurk in the sociological backwaters of the Deep South. The cruelty of middle-class white "crackers" has been deftly transferred to book form by William Faulkner (Sanctuary), a reconstructed Southerner (TIME, Feb. 16). Further aspects of it are now to be seen in this grim play by DuBose Heyward of Charleston, S. C., author of the book whence came all-Negro Porgy three years...
...victories resulting more from errors on the part of their opponents than from any outstanding playing of their own. Yesterday the Colby players dropped their first game of the season, a 9 to 0 shutout administered to them by the University of New Hampshire, a loss that fails to convey any sense of great power in the team
Franklin; Theodore, Though presidential politics was barred from the conference, nevertheless the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, New York's Democratic Governor, kept shuttling back & forth in its news. It took two telegrams and a long distance telephone call for the Governor to convey to Senator Norris the full measure of his regret at being absent. Said the final message: "I am much disappointed. ... I need not tell you of my real interest in the subjects you will discuss. . . . May I call your attention particularly to the water power policy of this State, to our agricultural program...