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...Great Saint Bernard hospice, long the stalking ground of Upidee and other inlaid ghosts of romantic legend, is giving up its ancient and abivairous custom of giving free fool and stirred to every weary pilgrim. It is said that the threadbare monks are stirred by the affluent cars and apparel of their humble guests to set up a hotel under a skilled extartioner; and that voluntary contributions have not sufficed to maintain the momstery. But the often fleeced American traveler is likely to suspect that the monks have found that the "Dine and Dance" electric flasher attracts the crowds more...
...Simone is as definitely Art as Abie's Irish Rose is indefinitely hokum. The French tradition is precise, rigorous and quite apart from life. Stage effects have been tested, analyzed and put up in little packages. Declamation and gesture have been rubbed by custom until they shine like polished pendants. In diagrams and model groups they cluster contentedly about the theatre and quite diffuse the raw beams of light and life...
...Therefore, after your resignation as associate minister takes effect, we invite you to make it your custom when when not otherwise engaged to preach in our pulpit on Sunday mornings. We cannot believe that this is in opposition to the mind of the Presbyterian Church...
...centre of the stage and have a good cry better than almost any actress we have, the exhibition is bound to manifest some merit. Miss Reed's tears are shed principally over her baby. This year it is a perfectly legitimate baby, somewhat contrary to the custom of her recent plays. It dies just as she is about to go on to play the big scene in Antony and Cleopatra. . She screams she can't go on, and then does. In the last act, her husband turns out to be unfaithful. She leaves for England-a great actress...
...meeting in Paris, many diplomatic changes were approved, one of the most important being the appointment of M. Emile Daeschner, Director of Administrative Affairs at the Quai d'Orsay (French Foreign Office), to succeed M. Jean Jules Jusserand as French Ambassador to the U. S. In accordance with diplomatic custom the French Government submitted for approval of the U. S. Government the name of M. Daeschner...