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...year of playing the part has also made a proper performance of the drama more difficult", he continued. "If you are familiar with the structure of 'Strange Interlude', you know that O'Neill's characters speak their thoughts in asides, these thoughts coming between speeches of entirely different import. Our difficulty, after playing the parts so long, is that we find ourselves listening to the asides, which, being thoughts, are obviously not meant for us as persons in the play. The result is that, unless we watch ourselves closely, we are in danger of misreading our next lines. When...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glenn Anders, Guild Star, Admires Harvard Indifference on Visit--Calls Proper Acting of O'Neill's Drama Difficult | 10/15/1929 | See Source »

...they may sometimes compete with American publications and thus reduce the per'capita spendings of each man woman and child on American printed books. It has been shown lately that American "Big Business" stops at practically nothing, and a Senate, investigation might find Shearer's brother stifling the import of French publications...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHEARER'S BROTHER | 10/4/1929 | See Source »

...surplus also rises! And with it appears once more the problem, not so perplexing apparently to those would easily and sanely dispose of it, but still of grave import to the body in whose final decision rests its ultimate destiny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SO HE TOOK THE FIFTY THOUSAND | 10/1/1929 | See Source »

...speaking as a protectionist, and I cannot see how it can be well argued that where the exports are increasing and the imports decreasing-and we import only 4% of our manufactured goods-is necessary to extend the doctrine any further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: First Assault | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...French system of levying on U. S. films will be worked out and applied, but it is understood that this will be simply a straight import tax with no direct subsidy feature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pie-in-the-Face | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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