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Juggler's Kiss?Manuel Komroff? Boni & Liveright...
...Author. Manuel Komroff was born 37 years ago in New York City. He received his college education at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, did post-graduate work at Yale in music and art. After serving as art critic for New York newspapers and as a writer of special articles, he traveled extensively through the Far East, contributing to the Chinese and Japanese press. Married, he lives in Manhattan. Two years ago he published The Grace of Lambs, a collection of short stories which was widely acclaimed. Juggler's Kiss is his first full-length novel...
...That Manuel Quezon, leader of the Philippine Senate, who spoke at the Union on Monday evening, has already put in motion a plan of insular government that will remove every trace of American supervision, inspection and direction, is the substance of information released by the War Department at Washington on Tuesday. This change of authority is going forward with the consent of President Coolidge, thus showing that the visit of Quezon and his companion, Sergio Osmena, representing the politicos of the islands, has already begun to bear more fruit than the promises of the last five presidents, cited...
...coming presidential campaign is at present undeterminable. It is difficult to believe that Coolidge plans to bestow upon the islands the British system of colonial government without some assurance that General Wood's charges of corruption in the elementary forms of native government were untrue. The ideas of Manuel Quezon and Sergio Osmena are born of the same stuff as was the Declaration of Independence, but it is doubtful if their island is yet ready to essay a trial in government that may result in a Pacific embroglio...
Dispelling most of the reasons yet propounded for the further retention of the Philippine Islands by the United States, Manuel Quezon, leader of the Philippine Senate, said at the Union last night. "We stand by our country, as small as it is, and we want to see the Philippine Islands one of the Far-Eastern Independent powers...