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Open House. Helen MacKellar, who was the target of so much grimy advertising in The Good Baa Woman fuss, does not seem to be a lucky picker. This latest is one of the vast flood of inferior pieces that have come along lately. It is about a big-business man who forced his wife to flirt with prospective customers and thus assist in the acquisition of great contracts. The play was bad and most of the acting, Miss MacKellar's excepted, was very bad indeed...
This particular School for Scandal was directed by Basil Dean, an Englishman of considerable standing in his own community. On this side his reputation as director is rather ragged. In fact many of the critics consider his work inferior. He seems to put a pompous and theatrical feeling into the proceedings; at any rate, he did in this production. The wit of the infallible comedy shone through but dimly...
Insulted, Mr. Cohen replied shrilly, intimating that the streets were free for those who cared to hasten or to tarry; adding further that he was not to be trifled with by a person of inferior coloring. He rose from his safe seat behind the steering wheel and thrust his sallow, ratlike countenance as close as possible to that of Mr. Johnson...
...extremely tall yarn. Said he: "Freemasonry strikes at the root of military discipline. . . . There was a case during the Tripolitan war in which the Commander in Chief was obliged to remit the punishment of a lieutenant because he was bidden to do so by his aide who, though his inferior in military rank, was his superior in Masonic rank...
...though his academic record may not indicate it. This same average student, therefore, may resent President Lowell's speech as doing injustice to his intentions, even if not to his achievements. But why? To say the obvious, it is because scholastic glory appears to the average undergraduate as an inferior glory, not so brilliant, and intrinsically of less worth, than other glory to which he can aspire. This attitude is unquestionably pernicious, but if remedies are to be sought, they must deal with the causes which underly so false a perspective in the student's mind...