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...been excited about this play for the past ten months, and no wonder. Less ghoulish than Rope's End, as cleverly constructed as A. A. Milne's classic thriller The Perfect Alibi, Playwright Armstrong's piece leaps nimbly over all the stenciled pitfalls which ensnare such pedestrian efforts as Keeper of the Keys...
...This pedestrian, one need scarcely add, is Wilbur Cortez Abbott, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History. This is the Squire of Sparks St. the insatiable collector of this and that, the indefatigable narrator of faded stories, the herenow admirer of Oliver Cromwell. This is he who was called from Yale in 1920 to fill the eight-league boots of Mr. Harold Laski...
...internal rule of law cannot be extended; its effective functioning is conditioned by the personal character of its rulers. If this personal standard could be maintained, justice would be achieved; but Plato himself was forced to turn from it wistfully in practise, and to prescribe the more pedestrian rule of law for the secure governance of peoples...
...author has not gone to the limits allowed by his medium. In view of the possibilities, and of the author's past performances, it is true praise to say that the work is in degree pedestrian. Its interest and its value are the greater in that the stagnation which he predicts seemed very near and real a short seven months ago. His vision has the greater authenticity in that it contains little that is incredible and nothing that is, to us, inconceivable. In short, the work is a serious attempt, unmarred by riotous imaginings, to show, in rough outline...
...Writer. Alice B. Toklas tells who and-to a certain extent-what Gertrude Stein is. but it will leave pedestrian readers still puzzling their heads over why this obviously shrewd and salty old lady, whose sentences may seem rather primer-like but are just as lucid as a primer's, should have gathered such a lurid reputation as murderess of the King's English. Such readers should remember that in Alice B. Toklas Authoress Stein is on her best behavior. If they are sufficiently curious to look up some of her wilder work, this is the kind...