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Charles MacVeagh, U. S. Ambassador to Japan, puissant barrister, Manhattan aristocrat, became suspect last week of being a descendant of the famed "Wise Men of Gotham." The most celebrated of their acts of wisdom was dipping water with a sieve at midnight to catch the moon...
...play "Brown of Harvard" began its career with a successful run of several months on Broadway. The ambling good natured style, and the clever character delineations attracted the Gotham theatre-going public from the start...
...Swerling's article suggests the possibility of the establishment in Boston by Mr. MacFadden of a counterpart of his Gotham publication. No one would hesitate, assuredly, to advise him to undertake this project at once. There are many hundreds, yes, thousands, of potential purchasers of a Boston "Graphic" in the Hub and its environs. Its success would be immediate...
...fact, Aeolian Hall, Gotham's musical center has already been engaged for April 25, 1925. It was there that the Harvard Orchestra won' the unanimous applause of audience and critic last week, with Walter Piston'24 conducting the group for the last time alter a brilliant career of three years in the role of leader...
...experience that his opinion springs. For the past ten years he has not gone much to the New York theatres. Recently, this has been changed. He has been viewing the current products. He has seen such plays as The Show off, Hell-Bent Fer Heaven, The Merry Wives of Gotham, etc., and he maintains that we have in New York, at the present, the best native drama America has ever had, the best, as a matter of fact, that exists in any city in the world. Individual acting, perhaps, was better in the old days?but production and direction...