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Bishop Cannon sat on the platform with the other dozen Bishops. Against his chair leaned his crutch (he was injured recently in a motor accident). Few people in the audience could see beneath his bowed grey head, his haggard face. Feelings in the audience were mixed. There were those who resented the Bishop's political apostasy in the last presidential campaign (he a Democrat campaigned for Hoover, to defeat Smith, the Wet). There were those who despised him for "gambling" through a bucket shop, those who revered him for his skillful, devious, successful fight for Prohibition laws, those...
...into patterns of human thought. In deference to this idea the ballet directed by Leonide Massine, the setting and costumes by Nicholas Roerich, all aimed at abstraction of movement and form. But there was a libretto for nonabstract minds to follow. Many a humble spectator welcomed this crutch to keep up with " The Hand of Fate" as well as with " Rite of Spring...
...either of the two feminine leads, Canina, using Blanca's method in man-hunting, has barren ground for her seed in Mosca and Volpone, but her acting lifts when she finds Carbaccio more amorously accessible. Philip Leigh, the Vulture, managed his voice as well as usual, but had a crutch, a limp, and a hunch to his black and cloaked back, just when it was hoped that the stage, at least, had seen the last of Mr. Chaney. Albert Van Dekker, in the part of Leone, Captain of the Fleet, spares nothing of himself to support alone in the play...
...line drive hit John McGraw in the right ankle which swelled up. McGraw, who had a dancing date that evening, sent out for crutches, had an X-ray taken, spent a day in his room, came down to the field next day with a camp stool, a cane, a crutch, and a megaphone. Later in the hotel he called the squad round him, put them through tactical drill he calls "skull practice...
...quiz yourself. In accordance with a suggestion by Joseph Kastner of the New York WORLD (TIME, March 22, LETTERS), the approximate pages upon which answers can be run down are indicated in this week's Quiz. Subscribers who concentrate when they read will not need this crutch. 1) In the recent newspaper straw ballot, the total vote was about how many to one against prohibition? (See PROHIBITION.) 2) What nation was nominally responsible for deadlocking the League Council at Geneva? (See THE LEAGUE.) 3) What magazine for April carries a well-documented, brief comparative history of commercial aviation...