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...Bulliet of the Chicago Evening Post: ". . . Mrs Mc-Cormick is not bad enough for empty flattery. ... Nor is she good enough to excite the envy and the malice of the wild wanton geniuses who luxuriate like weeds m the field of art. . . . [Her] portraits are characterized by keen observation of personality, which she records with an economy of line and plane to be found only among the more experienced painters. . . . [She] is successful with her portraits...
...Service man, has become a gambling big-shot. He meets his best friend's (Conway Tearle's) fiancee (Karen Morley) and at once reforms, returns to the Secret Service. Karen Morley, a woman of action, becomes engaged to Warner Baxter. Conway Tearle is vexed. There is much keen, clipped talk, people being candidly selfish, sinister, caddish with pleased expressions. Back in the Secret Service, Baxter captures a killer-counterfeiter to get his hand in, then investigates his fiancee's murder of an international spy, her brother-in-law. He tries to save her from the consequences...
Devens and Lupien are the only other members of the Harvard lineup to hit over .300. Devens has shown a keen batting eye this spring to average .333. Captain Lupien started the season well, but lately he has gone into a bad slump. His score remains at .309, but in the second Brown game he relinquished his position as fourth man in the batting order to Devens. The averages for the other members of the team are as follows: Gleason .261, McCaffrey .259, Sheldon .255, Adams .250, Fincke .234, Ware .200, Thacher .187, Taylor .111, Lockwood, Valeuski, and Jantzen...
...authority on the Populist uprising of the 1890's. With his desire to do more teaching most of his old students sympathize. He has a reputation of never letting a student go to sleep in his classroom, boasts of the athletes he has "reformed" into keen students...
...Dana "03 in an article on Walter Hasenclever says, "Walter Hasenclaver is the 'enfant terrible, or perhaps we should say rather the 'bad boy,' of German dramatists. Since the death of the terrible Wedekind, there has been no playwright so disturbing to German complacency as this small, keen, dynamic Hasenclaver, with his terrifying piercing eyes. . . .The sensationalism of Hasenclaver is hardly important enough to demand very serious consideration abroad, yet the originally and the daring of his plots which have stirred so much discussion in Europe deserve more attention than they have received in America...