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...drear confinment dulls our feeble brains...
...indeed, the convention has seemed bleak and drear. There is much that is bright and beautiful about the Forest City, but the delegates are heavy with sobering business, and their rendezvous is close to the sooted and drab Union Station and the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument...
PEER GYNT-" Down the vast edges drear" of a hard-hearted world Ibsen leads his epic hero on the futile quest of the meaning of lite. Peer, the boaster, the seeker of self-realization and the victim of a relentless wanderlust, is played by Joseph Schildkraut. Lee Simonson's settings are eerily effective...
PEER GYNT?"Down the vast edges drear" of a hard-hearted world Ibsen leads his hero on the futile quest for happiness. Peer, the boaster, is picturesquely played by Joseph Schildkraut and the Simonson settings are eerily effective...
...time when every newspaper is printing in its pictorial section pictures of "bolshevik" Italy, portraying in vivid detail seizures of mills and factories by the "red" element, it is comforting to hear from such a reliable source as the Italian Ambassador that conditions are not so drear as they have been painted. Of course the pictures and reports are correct, but the occurrences themselves are fewer and less alarming than the scareheads would seem to indicate; and it is only the frequent and often-repeated publication of these few occurrences that has led to the general impression that Italy...