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...upended his glass. Cried Dramatist St. John Greer Ervine: "To the drama!" Sparkling-eyed Actress Violet Vanbrugh responded to this toast. Later Mr. Ervine, who spent the winter of 1928-29 in Manhattan taking plays to pieces as Guest Critic of the New York World, spoke with modest and mellow good humor: "Anybody can take Shakespeare's plays to pieces," said he, "but only Shakespeare could put them together. . . . There is no such thing as a flawless play. Shakespeare could not abstain from making puns...
...Mellow and temperate, with a voice that trailed away vaguely, Schoolmaster Taft gave some Dry views of his own: "There may be a larger percentage of college men drinking today but the drunkenness is not one-twentieth what it was in my day. The scenes I've seen in New Haven if found there today would be cabled all over the world...
...credo of politics. The friend was Dr. William Oxley Thompson, 75, for a quarter of a century president of Ohio State University, now its President Emeritus. Dr. Thompson, once Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, had sent President Hoover a belated New Year's message in which he deplored, in mellow, age-ripened words, the present "mob-mindedness" of public life, the self-interest of those who press in upon the President. Wondering how any President could keep his sanity, he exhorted President Hoover to have the patience of Lincoln, to "be true to the ideals of the masses...
With a soldier's mellow sentimentality General Ismet continued: "We want our daughters, at the urging of their mothers, who, with their heads ornamented with the flowers of Anatolia, than's to the vigor of their healthy bodies, transported munitions in our time of need, to consecrate themselves to the pursuit of a vigorous physique. We want them ... to exhale the perfume of the flowers of our mountains, and to reflect the spirit of economy and sobriety...
...sell out a hall of Carnegie's size. Hayes is slight, frail-appearing. He sings spirituals artfully, in a high voice that is often reedy. The Negro who sang last week in Manhattan was as tall as Basso Feodor Chaliapin and brawnier. His voice was big and mellow. He sang simply. He was Paul Robeson, athlete-actor-baritone. Last week's was his first U. S. appearance after a three-year absence in Europe...