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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beginning when Henry Linden brings his bride Manella home from India to live amongst his old British family tree, awaiting the building of his own little nest, we travel space through her affair with his brother, and the resulting complications to where his brother's original country-gal wife, loving her husband and still liking his seductress, walks into the burning barn and thus out of the picture. The following nervous breakdowns, maddened raving, etc., turn what started out a very clever snappy job into a rather morbid dissection of human passion and pain...
...Literary Digest is exceedingly interested in the reactions of college men to the policies under which they will live in succeeding years and for this reason particular stress will be laid on the results...
...leaving the Houses is in every case financial, but a distinction must at once be made between two types of financial reasons. There is first the student who is simply unable to pay the price demanded by the college for rooms in a House, and who is planning to live at home. By far the larger majority of those who are leaving, however, fall into a second group, composed chiefly of club men. That they are dissatisfied is obvious, and the present situation can be met only through cooperation, between them and the University. Such cooperation is eminently desirable...
...companion piece to "We Live on Relief" in April Scribner's there is an article by an anonymous woman writer entitled "Does the World Owe Me a Living?" More than a description of how the other half lives this article is a revelation of a mode of thinking unknown by those happy with luxuries and oblivious to the sufferings of persons condemned to poverty through no fault of their...
...stage distractions at the Orpheum live up to the Standards of American vaudeville, by consisting of acrobats, pathetic comedians, and much too much tap dancing...