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...Hedda Gabler; Leueen MacGrath is a lightweight Mrs. Alving. Ibsen's Mrs. Alving is scoured to self-knowledge by the harsh uses of life; Actress MacGrath's Mrs. Alving is so much the sophisticated skeptic that events merely seem to confirm her suspicions. Modernity also mars Staats Cotsworth's Pastor Manders. He plays the hypocrite, but he is not, as Ibsen intended, a pious hypocrite...
...Eastman's calender is the device of Moses B. Cotsworth of England. Each month has 28 days, thus...
Putting the Eastman-Cotsworth calendar to use would be best and least confusing in a year when Jan. 1 fell on a Sunday. Such a year will be 1928, too soon for legislatures to act. However, 1935 also begins on Sunday...
...Cotsworth-Eastman proposed calendar [TIME, June 27] would produce hopeless confusion in rearrangement of dates, would make obsolete all present dating machines and apparatus containing such. Another objection, important in eyes of hard-worked businessmen: would give them three (or two) days less summer vacation...
...division of the Portland (Ore.) Chamber of Commerce last week determined, and published their determination, to use the Cotsworth-Eastman 13-month calendar, "provided it is universally adopted." That is the calendar Chairman George Eastman of the Eastman Kodak Co. has been giving his active support (TIME, June...