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However, there is a middle ground on which, professional producers do not dare, rather than do not deign, to tread; and this from fear of the audience rather than from fear of the censor. Unhappily the professional stage is governed by the need of making money and the temptation to play down to the box-office. The Dramatic Club has neither to pay its actors, nor to make a profit, and so is relatively free to experiment to advance the drama. It is possible to experiment with old plays, as well as with those of other countries: but merely...
...else they would have to assign the Freshman a room next to his schoolmate, and we would have school cliques and isolation of groups even more than we do now. The beauty of the Freshman Dormitories at present is that although the private or public school man may not deign to meet others who have not his interests at least the Middlesex man does meet the St. Paul's an, the Groton man or the Hill School man. The opportunity is also there for him to meet other types if he wants to, but under no circumstances is he bound...
...series was planned when Calles menaced foreign capital last spring. Why, he is endangering his interests for the public's good. He realized there might be International complications, congressional investigation, and the like, but the Hearst papers stand for news. And with Lucifer before the Inquisition, other editors deign to gloat. They are pained at the blow to the reputation of journalism. Mr. Hefflin speaks out, and calls Hearst a dastardly blackmailer to his face...
...passed in a land where "service" is not advertised but given. From a Swedish telephone operator is expected the sort of unstinted satisfaction which a Swedish housemaid gives by shining the family shoes every day, doing the household wash and energetically scrubbing such members of the family as may deign to take a bath. Last week the telephone companies in Stockholm and Gothenburg announced a new era of luxurious telephoning typically Swedish...
...Palace, on Monte Titano, just above the Borgo, the two Capitani Reggenti (Regents) and the 60 Grand Councilors of San Marino were listening with anxious faces to proposals dictated by Signor Benito Mussolini. He came and saw San Marino (TIME, Aug. 30), and now, it seemed, he would deign to conquer this land of 38 square miles and but 12,027 souls. Armed conquest would, in the circumstances, be absurd; but Signer Mussolini's agents proposed last week the building of a railway which would lead just as surely to the conquest of San Marino?by Italian immigrants...