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...short stories, "Among the Lost People," is a different application of the above quotation from "Gehenna," the twelfth, which depicts the hell through which the human mind goes to find "consciousness which is pure suffering." The tales are told with an implacable, pseudo-scientific introspectiveness that almost suggests Poe. They are tales of madness, weakness, and failure--of a man half-drunk who succumbs to the temptation to steal some unwanted object is caught, and his life is ruined. ("Impulse"): pathetic souls who laugh insincerely or tell unimportant lies simply to attract interest and who collapse when someone finds them...
Broadway--$.30-.40-.35.* $1.50 minimum. No cover. Sammy Liner's orchestra. Long floor show with Martin and Nixon, Rodney Ney, Ronnie Poe. The old May-fair; good place if one likes the cabaret atmosphere and would rather watch a floor show than dance. Mixed crowd. Dress optional...
Broadway $.30-.40-.35. $1.50 minimum. No cover. Sammy Liner's orchestra. Long floor show with Martin and Nixon. Rodney Ney, Ronnie Poe. The old May-fair; good place if one likes the cabaret atmosphere and would rather watch a floor show than dance. Mixed crowd. Dress optional...
...facts are here, indeed, but one remains uncertain as to the case which they constitute. A tradition is necessary, Mr. Wade assumes. But he hardly defines the single tradition of which Franklin, Cooper, Whitman, Poe and James are equally the representatives. He leaves in the air their common Americanism. Consequently when Mr. Wade comes to "developments after 1900" he only convinces one that there has been in these years a good deal of miscellaneous activity; he does not persuade one that this activity represents a real growth which in the natural course of things must flower. He leaves one with...
Broadway--$.30-.40-.35. $1.50 minimum. No cover. Sammy Liner's orchestra. Long floor show with Martin and Nixon, Rodney Ney, Ronnie Poe. The old Mayfair; good place if one likes the cabaret atmosphere and would rather watch a floor show than dance. Mixed crowd. Dress optional...