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...muse of intoxicating comedy holds sway at the Copley Theatre this week in the revival of Leslie Howard's farce "Murray Hill". Into the unruffiled Victorianism of the Tweedle family on Murray Hill bursts the rampant spirit of twentieth century gaiety in the form of a renegade relative of the Tweedles, Worthington Smythe. He appears on the morning of the funeral of a great aunt, who has bequeathed him $1000,000, highly intoxicated, and in a crumpled dress-suit. To save this youth from the wrath of his aunts, the family lawyer, Appleway, of "Appleway, Appleway, and Plunket", uses...
...upper reaches of Widener and left to blush unseen in the sterile atmosphere of the special libraries, the Poetry Room has failed to fulfill its high promise. Unfortunately to the difficulties of its location have been added other obstacles which discourage the ordinary mortal in pursuit of his muse...
Open-air singing has an intangible charm not always accruing only to the singers themselves; the listeners, too, especially if the Muse be well represented by lier mortal enfulators, are pleasantly aware of an inner harmony with Nature, suggested, no doubt, by the vocal efforts of the performers...
...lank limbs that follow in its tread? No, the hope of the world must be in the women. And even that is an much a case of vanity as of hope. It is really about as broad as it is long. One can only sit by, and muse on hippology...
...Author. LeRoy MacLeod, once an adman like Sherwood Anderson, founded the advertising agency of Waters & MacLeod (Los Angeles), retired from it in 1929 to cultivate the thankless muse. Three Steeples is his first novel, but he has also written a book of verse, Driven, which called forth from his great & good friend Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols, English poet, the statement that MacLeod is "the only United States poet I have known with the 'Hardy' quality...