Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foreign Student Committee will continue its council meetings this year, but with some change in their policy. Instead of including only one representative from each country, any students who are interested may attend the meetings, at which topics of international importance will be discussed...
...refined an object as the opera, but the work of the Cosmopolitan Opera Company, at the Arlington for two weeks, leaves absolutely no basis for this fear. A small theater and stage, simple settings, singers not yet widely known--these might be handicaps for such an organization; instead they are transformed into positive aids. The grandiose atmosphere that surrounds the Chicago Company's midwinter performances is lacking; in its place is an enthusiastic group of singers and a fully appreciative audience...
...Ghost Parade recounts some of the perplexities which confront the British Army in India, including a cabal who dress up as spooks in order to smuggle firearms to the natives, and an unpleasant Hindu who, instead of being the villain as no one had suspected, is really Cyril Teetarn, detective. It is a venture in more than one way distressing...
...Utica, N. Y., one Harry Hewlett, garage man, sued the N. Y. Telephone Co; and Mrs. Dorcas Stockhauser, telephone operator, for $10,000. His charge: since 1923 Operator Stockhauser. daughter of a rival garage man, wife of another, diverted all calls to the Howlett garage, sent them instead to her family's garages...
...London opening last fortnight the play had fair success. Actress Foster is not the only person Critic Hannen Swaffer has belittled. He once called Playwright George Bernard Shaw "a tiresome old driveller." Playwright Shaw did not smack Critic Swaffer's face. Instead, at the annual luncheon of the Critics' Circle last month in London, when Toastmaster St. John Ervine divided dramatic critics into three kinds?"critics, reporters and Hannen Swaffer"?Shaw said all dramatic critics were very bad, compared Swaffer to the late great Playwright-Critic William Archer,* said that Archer was worse...