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...prologue in a Parisian cafe fails somehow to impress one with the ability of either actors or author; Miss Rachel Crothers does not show her hand until the second act. There have been innumerable drunk scenes paraded before the long-suffering theatre-goer, but their authors have rarely succeeded in the measure with which Miss Crothers does in this particular bit. Geoffrey Wardwell and Jay Fassett contribute remarkable performances as their share in this scene, and the author supplied them with excellent material, studded with laugh producing lines...
Both you and President Lowell, if your reasons are alike, impress reasonable minds as having built up a formidable argument at the expense of clear duty and justice. It is not wholly a formidable case, at that. The generality with which your editorial states that funds raised in such a way would be negligible in comparison with the evil worked on administrative policy, seems to indicate a trifle of uncertainty, of lack of self-conviction, on your own part. I do not like to see either you or President Lowell practice intellectual acrobatics, or, what is worse, fall back...
Well-beloved, well-hated, "Tommy Arkle" wore garish clothes, big rings, liked to be told that he was the best dressed man on the campus, glowered quizzically over his spectacles as he talked with his students. Quietly, firmly he made his impress upon Illinois, abolishing naughty fraternities (Kappa Beta Phi, Theta Nu Epsilon), fraternity "hell week," freshman hazing, student ownership of automobiles. He is fond of proper fraternity life, interested especially in his own Alpha Tau Omega. Like Edward, Prince of Wales an accomplished fancy-worker, he knit sweaters for soldiers during the World War, has lately turned his attention...
Because he believed it would impress the reader, Publisher George T. Delacort Jr. had printed on Ballyhoo's cover: "Edited by Norman Anthony, former editor of Life and Judge." Thus did Editor Anthony trade upon the very reputation he was bitterly attacking. He was discharged by Life, is suing for alleged breach of contract...
Even a casual and infrequent perusal of the daily press cannot fail to impress upon the average citizen that his country, a world leader in so many lines of endeavor, must at the same time own to preeminence in the rougher arts of hijacking, racketeering, municipal corruption, and homicide. Headlines keep us in touch with a gangster here entering a hospital to recuperate after a brush with a few other thugs, or with another resisting with lead the intrusion of some scores of New York police into his apartment. And the past year has seen an unusually large number...