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Died. Kate Meek, 87, actress, "for more than 60 years a notable figure in the American theatre"; in New York City. She was the Elsie Janis of Civil War soldier-entertainment. After the War, she supported Edwin Booth and others of the renowned Ford's Theatre Stock Company in Baltimore. For 19 years she was employed by the late Charles Frohman. She supported Charlotte Cushman, Joseph Jefferson, Edwin Booth, Maude Adams, John Drew, William Gillette, Otis Skinner, Billie Burke. She last appeared in 1913, with Alia Nazimova, in The Marionettes...
...lend all their energies to an active combat with the power which the war system holds over humanity. Dr. Richards is himself a pacifist and was one all during the last war. His doctrine of pacifism, however, as he stated in his speech last night, is not one of meek submission. "Non-resistance and non cooperation will not achieve world peace", said Dr. Richards. "War must be combatted, and a definite stand must be taken against the institution and all it implies...
Take, for example, the formation of the Theatregoers' Club, which ended last week in blind confusion. During the first part of the meeting the embryonic society elected a president, approved a constitution, and accepted temporary by-laws with the usual meek docility. Then some fair hared disciple of the law, leaning on his lacquered cane, raised the awful cry: "unconstitutional"! After that all the king's horses and all the king's men could not have put through an election. Motions were made, seconded, passed, and shortly superceded. Articles were drawn up, amendments proposed, compromises suggested, and through...
...INEVITABLE MILLIONAIRES-E. Phililps Oppenheim -Little, Brown ($2.00). Life for Stephen and George Henry Underwood was a prolonged struggle against the adversity of success. To these meek brothers their father had left a vast fortune with the instruction that they should "disseminate among their fellow creatures a considerable portion of their income," adding that the art of spending was as difficult as the art of saving. They tried to lose by backing a musical comedy, an open-air theatre, a golf club. Always, miserably, they profited. Mr. Oppenheim-King Spider, spinner of a thousand diabolical detective tales -here chuckles with...
...House of Parliament: "The corruption of democracies proceeds directly from the fact that one class imposes the taxes and another class pays them. . . . Democracy is likely to perish through national bankruptcy. . . . Democracy means a victory of sentiment over reason." Glints Buckingham Palace: "When Christ said 'Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth,' He was thinking of the British Empire." At last the Abbey: "The Church burned Bruno and imprisoned Galileo. The Church has lived by its monopolies and conquered by its intolerance...