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...omit further unfair comparison of mediums, the play is powerful on its own plane. Of a moving generality it makes a convincing particular. Actor Glenn Anders as Dodd does not come up to London's frenzied descriptions of Noel Coward in that part, but Edna Best's Tessa in London could not have far surpassed the performance of Beatrix Thomson, quaint, perhaps too pretty, but subtly pigeontoed. It is said that all Broadway was combed to find an ingenue who knew what a constant nymph was, without success. Miss Thomson, daughter of a British army colonel, is the wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 20, 1926 | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...considered--including Europe, this country is not entirely devoid of merit. Others may not like us, in fact he says, "Columbus, I suppose, was one of the few foreigners who were agreeably surprised when they discovered America". But foreigners are a luxury which we may, if it he necessary, omit. And so are the continental ex-patriates a type to which Mr. Boyd devotes the major part of his article...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL | 12/4/1926 | See Source »

...Guthrie asks the deletion of the statement, which appears in a campaign pamphlet of the Endowment Fund Committee, on the ground that it gives a false impression that it was made after Mr. Taft became chief justice. W. M. Powell '96, chairman of the committee, has refused to omit the statement, and Mr. Guthrie wrote him yesterday, stating his reason for asking for the withdrawal of the phrase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 11/19/1926 | See Source »

...always disappointed when you omit the medical section from TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 17, 1926 | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...slight. The second is rather more substantial. A sufficient knowledge of American literature is all but essential to a balanced estimate of American society. If untutored in American literature since grammar school days, the college student will return to vague memories of "Barbara Frietsche" and so, meditating, will omit literature from consideration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VALUE UNDERVALUED | 5/6/1926 | See Source »

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