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...House Beautiful is a new offering by Channing Pollock, the Upton Sinclair of the stage. Incorrigibly didactic, Mr. Pollock is not only a playwright, but a poet and parson as well. Like his other plays (The Fool, The Enemy, Mr. Money-penny), The House Beautiful is packed with homilies, but in presenting them Preacher Pollock has stretched his imagination to the limit, as if he realized that he must keep up with the experimental work of the younger boys of the theatre. Hence his play-against which the only criticism is that it is too worthy-makes use of gramophonic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 23, 1931 | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...such a person vital in such a play. Aside from her diction and a few unrestrained dramatics that were difficult to avoid, however, she turned in a creditable performance. Mr. Lunt assisted her with no great brilliancy, but as well as his lines would permit. And if the Court Fool was the epitome of Elizabethan wit and humor, "merrie England" is a euphemism...

Author: By E. E. M., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/10/1931 | See Source »

...Fool and His Money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 9, 1931 | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...will not pass Congress. I do not think it would be a good thing for such a wholesale distribution of money as was first proposed to take place. It would be a feast for a short while and then famine again for a majority of the recipients. 'A fool and his money are soon parted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 9, 1931 | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...What a Fool I've Been and / Hate Myself (Victor)-As usual the Ohman-Arden piano combination makes second-rate stuff sound like something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: March Records | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

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