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...severely heckled by committee members on N. E. L.'s weakest political point-the benefits its active leaders derive from the U. S. Treasury. The same criticism was leveled at N. E. L. by January FORTUNE. Another cogent charge against the League is that it is politically inept in concentrating its fire on the single front of veterans' expenditures rather than developing a comprehensive plan of attack against all Government spending. Into the record went the following pensions paid the following persons who were advocating pension cuts: General John Joseph Pershing...
...scurrying action of the plot perambulates the great problem of Society in the Machine Age. The prison and the factory, could any one mistake that parallel? Yet this is a parody that parodies itself. Nothing is taken seriously but the friendship of Louis and Emile, whose adventures in gently inept romance and business melodrama, respectively, run hilariously together: and since this is no very serious matter, either, we are never required to depart from the tone established with such precision in the early scenes. M. Clair's control of his craft is sure enough to permit him an almost improvisatory...
Black Sheep (written & produced by Elmer Rice [Reizenstein]). Immediately after Producer Hopkins had unpleasantly surprised theatregoers with his inept Rendezvous, along came Playwright Rice with the second major disappointment of the play week. The author of Pulitzer Prize-winning Street Scene foisted on his following a scrappy bit of nonsense dealing with a short-story writer who left his respectable home to wander over the world. When he returned it was with considerable literary kudos and a mistress. He settled into his family's comfortable life with amazing ease, took up golf, curried favor with the Press, jacked...
More amazing than the prowess of the U. S. girl swimmers was the performance of several youths representing Japan. They far outclassed the U. S., whose men swimmers have won most of the events in previous Olympics. The first Japanese Olympic swimmers, competing at Antwerp in 1920, were peculiarly inept. They used an antiquated sidestroke and were anxious to learn how to do the crawl. Most Japanese athletes, other than swimmers, in the current Olympic Games have likewise been concerned with learning how to compete rather than winning prizes. Japanese skiers in the Winter Olympic Games last February amused Lake...
...other hand, as museum director he was mightily concerned with the public's reaction to a Harvard traveler's troubles. The sensationalized murder of Columbia University's Henrietta Schmerler when she bungled among the Apaches (TIME, March 28, et ante) has made every institution wary of inept field agents. But Professor Barbour held his tongue until last week from Buenos Aires came a fresh despatch : "The existence of white Indians with blonde hair, who live like animals . . . was confirmed by Dr. Donald S. Wees, Harvard Museum explorer. . . . The explorer said the Indians were completely naked and without...