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Here is material for a good drama or a good comedy. Unfortunately, the Hungarian Sil-Vara who penned the piece, has taken his stand directly between these possibilities. He has chosen to deal lightly with the subjects, tossing epigrams hither and yon every once in a while to keep us amused. But he has not done it as well as it has been done many times before. He has also chosen to have his characters release certain ponderous sayings from time to time, to keep the play out of the pure comedy class. These dicta are sound but not better...
Three big blackboards were set up in the living room. As the sun sank returns began coming in. The Hoover secretaries darted hither and yon with slips of paper, chalk and chalk-erasers, like marker boys in a brokerage office. Mr. Hoover worked with them for a while, then sat in the front row of chairs, smoking a pipe. The buzzing crush of people seemed to bother him. He went into his study. Telephone calls were incessant. He discouraged premature congratulations, wandering between living room and study...
Agitated either by fear of "overconfidence" or by a great and visible insurgence of Smith strength, the G. 0. P. sent speakers hither, thither...
...roots so-firmly enbedded in the strong soft of truth that superficial guy wises are but an undignified insult to an inherent stability. It is fortunate as well as gratifying that there is a spokesman for this loyalty who will reach those parts of the country which have hither to taken Harvard indifference literally...
...producers of elaborate musical comedies or operettas have now come to the conclusion that what the public wants is no longer "sex," but adventure and romance. No one knows how the producers have been able to detect this curious hunger; but they have not been slow in satisfying it. Hither is the present trend of Ziggy; the Shubert show, White Lilacs, makes a valentine out of a vulgar though exciting episode. In The New Moon, Schwab and Mandel, from the cheers and collegiate stomping of Good News, have turned to New Orleans before the French Revolution and the dreamy schemes...