Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After reading it very carefully, I came to the page on Religion and I would like to draw your attention to Rabbi Stephen Wise's comment on the "Erection of a Shrine to Buddha" in Central Park, New York City [Dec. 14 issue, p. 26]. It reads: "I wonder whether the proposal to erect a statue in Central Park to Buddha comes from Will Rogers. It is quite worthy of his fertile wit. Buddha! What's the matter with Mahomet ? What's the matter with Confucius, to say nothing of Bab? And there is a sect called the Mormons...
This is no time to try to think of original criticism of "Rain", now belatedly current at the New Park Theatre. The play has been praised by metropolitan critics as long and as fervidly as "Abie's Irish Rose" has been reviled, and with equally good reason. An appreciation is more in order than a review. This department is doing its full duty to its readers in saying merely that the passing years have treated the play and the players kindly. There is none of the mechanical action and listless mouthing of lines that one might expect after four years...
...Park--"Rein," at 8.15 o'clock...
...forbidden. Ten percent of its earnings will go to support a medical mission at Lake Victoria Nyanza, in Africa. The builder is a realtor named Oscar E. Konkle. The site is close to those of the Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University, International House and the site of the proposed Park Avenue Baptist Church...
...Park "The Matince Girl", at 8.15: Musical comedy headed towards New York. We honestly hope it gets there...