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...wholesale prostitution of the colleges first for the war and then for the peace which denied the glory of that war. He shows us professorial chairs being stuffed with industrial moneys, unorthodox belief being roughly wiped out by college officials under pressure from above. The whole era of Mencken, Babbitt, the hip flask and the Charleston is seen with as great a clarity as that afforded by Mr. Allen's now almost classic "Only Yesterday". This part of Wechsler's book is a vivid and illuminating bit of journalistic history...
...point out that, no matter what the worth of its claim to the prize may be, "The Old Maid" is an absorbing, soundly constructed and beautifully worded drama which has been lifted to the top of the list by the incomparably excellent acting of Judith Anderson and Helen Mencken...
...virtues of the manuscript. Zoe Atkins' dramatization of Edith Wharton's novel produces a quietly accelerating story which rises in the last act to genuinely fine drama but the play's success must be attributed in large part to the lucid, mature, and movingly sincere talents of the Misses Mencken and Anderson...
Died, Sarah Haardt Mencken, 37, essayist, novelist (The Making of a Lady), wife of famed Baltimore Critic H. L. Mencken; after long illness; in Baltimore...
PASSING JUDGMENTS-George Jean Nathan-Knopf ($2.50). Another volume of critical essays by a famed bachelor, onetime second fiddle to H. L. Mencken...