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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short-story, "Children in Twilight," is excellent. The author, Otto E. Schoen-Rene, has produced a work of distinct literary merit, particularly his passages of pure description. It is a rare, thing to find "atmosphere" handled with so much skill that it does not appear to be obvious "literary effort." In addition to this story, is another very acceptable one by George C. Heck, Jr. One might wish that he had not ended it quite so abruptly, but it is, nevertheless, a very enjoyable tale. A delightful bit of nonsense, "The Ring and the Booklet" by Philip Nicholas...
...Shubert, it makes one wonder how the average musical comedy can be stomached. For right in the score of "The Mikado" there is tunefulness enough, fun enough for anyone. When these are nicely manicured and exhibited in the typical Winthrop Ames manner, they form an extremely rare sort of entertainment...
...would have been so phenomenal as to upset the assumptions under which the test was planned in the first instance. For that matter, if Yale and Harvard could at will turn out young men prepared to produce literature on short notice the whole prestige of literature as a rare art would be gone. Pallas News
Mediaeval persons, who had not quite escaped the cheering madness which makes savages discover in every stone an emblem, in every wind a god, imagined the unicorn, a strange single antlered creature which no one had ever seen, as a symbol for purity. It was a rare beast as well as one unreal; to capture the unicorn, one must first capture a virgin and induce her to sit still upon the ground. The unicorn, attracted by a purity akin to his own, might come and lay his shaggy, frightened head upon her lap. Then hunters might come up and kill...
...BACHELOR FATHER-Natural children in velvet gloves, or father's day at the foundling's home (TIME, March 12). VOLPONE-Ben Jonson's farce about a miser who missed fire, modernized and improved (TIME, April 23). THE HAPPY HUSBAND-Miss Billie Burke proving that, on rare occasions, a woman can forgive her husband for forgetting to be jealous (TIME, May 14). Also: THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY, THE ROYAL FAMILY, OUR BETTERS. MUSICAL Look, Listen, Laugh: Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Funny Face, Show Boat, Rain or Shine, The Three Musketeers, Present Arms...