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...Repertory next week (adv.) which just thrills us all, thud, thud. Imagine the opportunity to see at one and the same time or at least within a week two productions of the same show, even though it is one of Shaw's worst, is now as dead as the dodo, the German war guilt and Ogden Mills. Weren't it for a friend of ours who goes to Vermont State Normal School we'd bet on Radcliffe, that is, knowing the Repertory...
...religion Would the one-cylinder Bryan (to use our apostle's own system of concocting words) advocate an Inquisition or merely the inauguration of the Yale system of compulsory chapel? It is to be hoped that the day of religious persecution has long since gone the way of the Dodo. A religion militantly thrust upon one is no religion...
...finality. To all appearances the vigilantes of the state have no longer fear of the horse thief. He has gone the way of all the figures of a less mechanical past. So the Irish leader of the English stage can arrange no more "She wings of Blascos". Like the dodo, Shaw's hero has become extinct...
Edward Frederic Benson, whose "Dodo" set agog all English society in the "Naughty Nineties," has added another successful novel to his long and creditale list. "Robin Linnet" besides being an easy and diveritng story of English country life among the "quiet rich," introduces in the person of its hero a living character, the charm of whose personality cannot but endear him to the most hardened of fiction hounds...
Were an ornithologist suddenly to stumble upon a real live dodo, his pleasure, but not his surprise, might be greater than that of a music-lover of 1913 on finding himself confronted with Mr. Goepp's "Is Wagner a Master?" Mr. Goepp supports his negative answer with all the impressiveness and argumentive force which the printing of the word "no" in italics can confer. However, the right to his own opinion is one far from the present reviewer be the attempt to dissuade Mr. Goepp from his honest conviction that Wagner was "destructive of melody," that his career was "decadent...