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Comedienne. Somewhere in France this little portrait was first found. Presumably in some French theatre it amused the crowds that came to gaze. In importation all its glitter died away. It is the tale of an actress who became a grandmother and retired to Virginia. By the last act she is back at the stage door. Charlotte Walker was immoderately miscast in the part. Cyril Keightley did very little as head man. Alan Dale-"Sheer inadequacy and torture...
...chanced to step on the soil of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and gaze upon Washington University's eight had any doubt about their winning the 37th annual Poughkeepsie Regatta on the Hudson River. These lads from the West averaged six feet two inches in height and when they pulled their oars the thin sliver of a boat sped through the water with the proverbial speed of greased lightning...
...telling that makes this novel unique. In oddly blurred, yet impossibly vivid, shimmering sentences, this rich ambling becomes an absorbing tale. In what its author calls "a romance of bad manners," he has sketched those nebulous days just after the Civil war, for our contemporary gaze...
With "hundreds of vacant chairs meeting his gaze," Senator Hiram Warren Johnson caused his voice to reverberate through the cavernous recesses of a Newark, N. J., auditorium. "Secretary Mellon is the real head of the Government!" he roared. "He should be nominated for the Presidency, and not merely someone to represent him. You may fire a Denby; you may attack a Daugherty; but when you attack a Mellon you touch the supersensitive nerve of finance and big business and the whole Government trembles...
...going to sit as a godhead on Ann Arbor campus seemed rather absurd when I heard it. How unhappy, to be sure, he would be; but then, I found I was mistaken. It was the Poet Laureate of England, imported for the little middle-western boys and girls to gaze upon...