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BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT?Rafael Sabatini ? Houghton ($2.00). More sword-clashings by "the modern Dumas," who here tosses off another breathless tale of hapless heroine rescued by peerless knight amid rebellion, intrigue, mad dashings hither and yon, and all else calculated to lift one bodily out of one's chair...
...more effective, if idealistic, means of using the newspapers to reform a hopelessly wicked world would seem to be the adoption of a policy of rewarding virtue, rather than sin, with publicity. But hither to stories of the award of Carnegie and Congressional medals have usually served as somewhat uninteresting fillers on inside pages. And there seems to be little hope of changing the character of the daily news, for as Dr. Lee aptly said. "It is the taste of the fish and not that of the fisherman, which denotes the kind of bait to be used;" and the reading...
...infatuated wth Anna that he tried recently to turn Russia over, lock, stock and barrel, to Grand Duke Nicholas, uncle of the late Tsar. All M. Trotsky wanted in exchange was passports viséd for every country in Europe, so that he and his adored could flit hither and thither outside of Russia...
...often drawing close to professional skill and pains, has taken the Peabody Playhouse at 357 Charles Street for three months. There they will produce plays of the newer, fresher sort, that within easy recollection were novel and successful in New York; that no other hands are likely to bring hither. They are now making a beginning with "Ambush," as truthful, human, moving tragedy, in little and around the corner, as an American playwright has written. They so stage and act the piece that it barely falls short of the original performances in New York by the Theatre Guild. Fast...
Newspapers, however, have been very independent about bowing to the creature rushing hither and yon. They have stooped to headlines, to be sure, but that has been merely a hook thrown out to coach the business man. The special editions which have become customary, and the ever-increasing Sunday supplements are more like an obstinate challenge to him. Every newsstand was once a command to stop and think: but now the presses move faster than ever. The business man has nearly been forced to admit defeat...