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...SHOW by McCready Huston. Scribner's, New York, $2. This is a novel of a man whose boyhood was spent with a circus and whose manhood was passed in the contemplation of circuses of many kinds, including his own life. His viewpoint sets him both in and out of the events he witnessed and gives the author a chance thus, to portray a character with unusual completeness...
...moving pictures as for arena exhibitions. And what does this portend? Are the Mexicans losing their sporting blood that they are now content to sit drowsily in darkened room whereas they were wont to eat bananas and throw the skins at toreadors? In other words--where is their manhood...
Bluff, white-haired John Markle, coal man, chewing a fat cigar, sat at a luncheon table in the Waldorf-Astoria last week, heard Charles Michael Schwab say: "John Markle, you stand for my ideal of American manhood. . . . You have always tried to appear as a roughneck sort of fellow but beneath your rugged exterior I know there is a heart of the finest gold...
...have not the slightest doubt but that America today is teeming with potential greatness, a goodly proportion of which will never come to fruition because of lack of opportunity. One of the soundest arguments of the Neo-Malthusians is that wide-spread opportunity can only be offered to developing manhood and womanhood in a nation unharassed by population difficulties. The second contention is simply false. It was disposed of by Havelock Ellis in a series of brilliant essays quite some time ago. And just recently Terman has shown that the thousand most intelligent children of California are above the average...
...said M. Kerensky through an interpreter to the police. Then,"in Russian, to the audience: "Oh, you poor little monarchists. You have lost your manhood. Not one of your ex-officers dares to come upon this stage! Instead you send a woman...