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...boredom the only menace fostered by the critic; his efforts often constitute a temptation as well. It is far easier, and much more expedient to read and re-hash the comments which appear in the encyclopedia on the subject of Ben Jonson, for instance, than it is to honor the bard and his works with an original treatise. And to complicate matters still further, the former procedure is invariably productive of a better grade. This unfortunate state of affairs doubtless cannot be corrected by consigning to oblivion all critical essays and essayists, past and present; but before absorbing, sponge-like...
...McCann had been with Standard Oil, and the Standard Oil Companies of New Jersey, Ohio, California, Indiana, Nebraska and Pennsylvania, together with Stance, Inc. are still among his biggest clients, along with California Packing Corp., Devoe & Raynolds (in part), Canadian National Railways, Zonite, Borden (in part), Beech-Nut, Encyclopedia Britannica and many another...
...Arts & Literature: "No one has the ghost of a chance of being an effective teacher in any grade of school unless he has both a critical and constructive mind. Even though he be famous for the range of his erudition, though he be as full of information as an encyclopedia, as systematic in the organization and conduct of his courses as a railroad time table, yet if he is wholly without the urge to investigation and does nothing to stimulate scholarly or scientific ambition in his students, he can never attain the position of ranking professor...
Chaney's first cinema job, obtained at once for the asking, was riding horses in a Western. After The Hunchback of Notre Dame he was regarded as an expert at disguises, wrote an article on make-up for Encyclopedia Britannica. A ventriloquist in vaudeville, he capitalizes this ability in The Unholy Three. He ascertained he could best imitate a female voice not in falsetto but by speaking quietly and enunciating carefully. Last of the great stars to make a talkie (except Chaplin, who still swears he will never talk), Lon Chaney explained his reluctance by saying that speech would...
...John Joseph Wynne, S.J., an editor of the Catholic Encyclopedia Litt.D...