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...Americans constituted the band of adventurers?a strange and motley crew, a handful of college presidents, as many professors, Y. M. C. A. officials, editors, a business man or two, a few politicians, a couple of women. At their head, Captain of the little band of élite and erudite adventurers, x-student at Frankfort-on-the-Main and Munich, Ray Lyman Wilbur, President of Leland Stanford Jr. University, gazed westward across the western ocean...
These are lite plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...
...hour of the reception arrived. At the top of the famous staircase where the Tsar's Ambassadors used to receive the élite, stood M. and Mme. Rakovsky in front of a bust of Lenin. The first to arrive was H. G. Wells, followed by G. B. Shaw, Arthur Henderson, George Lansbury, Oswald Mosley, radical son-in-law of Marquis Curzon...
Every schoolboy knows that Grand Rapids, Mich., is the center of the furniture trade in the U. S. Few even of the élite know that Grand Rapids is also the center of the vanishing cognate art of woodcarving. In the Ryerson Public Library the Woodcarvers' Association of Grand Rapids holds an annual exhibition, filled with the zeal of the medieval craftsmen. There are only about 1,000 hand-carvers in America, all told, and 157 of them are in Grand Rapids, though at one time they numbered there 375. The artists to whom the hand furniture industry gives...
PEER GYNT-" Down the vast edges drear" of a hard-hearted world Ibsen leads his epic hero on the futile quest of the meaning of lite. Peer, the boaster, the seeker of self-realization and the victim of a relentless wanderlust, is played by Joseph Schildkraut. Lee Simonson's settings are eerily effective...