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...National). It would have taken an actress to make convincing this scenario about a check-girl who pretends to be a debutante from Boston to win the love of a young man who pretends to be a millionaire. Alice White is not an actress. Alice White is a size-fourteen girl who looks like Clara Bow, but cuter; all eyes and no chin. She loses her bathing suit; she rides a horse for the first time; the rest is pretty stupid...
Cambridge, a city of more than 120,000 population, can actually boast of its own daily newspaper, and there by explode the proverbial joke regarding its own infancy. For this purpose the fourteen consecutive issues of the Cambridge Evening Journal have provided the necessary dynamite and now stand on approval...
This is the usual unpleasant spectacle of the persecuted Freshman hazing the next class as soon as he is a Sophomore. For fourteen decades the quarrel of state and national governments has dragged through courts and congresses and war. Recent years have seen the states quietly increasing their own jurisdiction, even as the federal administration has stepped, more or less successfully, into their affairs; the establishment of state police, the summoning of militia in last spring's strike, the bill pending now before the General Court limiting the small town's power of appointing local officials, are indications of this...
...Great Election Banquet," however, Mr. Edmond's contribution, is of another order entirely. The banquet of the Democrats of Oneida country, all fourteen of them with the addition of the stage driver who voted both Democrat and Federalist, a banquet which culminated with the practical destruction of the Baptist steeple and the absolute inundation of all the guests to the great discomfort of the Federalists who had to foot the bill and stay sober, is a pretty homeric tale. If (in the manner of Time's advertisements) you are curious to know who shouted 'Oysthersh' from under the table...
...annual collection of best short stories edited by Mr. Edward J. O'Brien for the last fourteen years no longer needs a reviewer's praise. It has arrived, so to speak, and looking to the future, let us hope it is here to stay. Previous issues have been so well thought of that they have found their way into the college short story writing courses where examples of the best are desirable...