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...Gong", announced by the Harvard Dramatic Club for its spring production, conforms to the dramatic rules set down by its author, Mr. John Dos Passos, in a recent number of Vanity Fair, we may be sure that the play is of questionable merit. The essay to which I refer is in substance an attack upon the "literary" drama. "We may as well admit," the author begins, "that for our time there are no questions of aesthetics...
...Mary Reade is joking, I chuckle with her. If not, she might refer to page 939 of Webster's New International Dictionary, 1920, giving one definition of the adjective "grammatical" as "of or pertaining to" grammar. Therefore to use the word "broadcasted" as the past tense of the verb "to broadcast" is properly referred to as a "grammatical" error. A. H. MILES
...Please refer to your issue of Jan. 5, 1925: Page 2, col. 1−"a large part...
...Said Mr. Schepp to reporters: "I noticed in some of the papers that they refer to me as Coconut King. Please note, I am not worthy of this title, neither does my firm handle more coconut than others...
...While I refer Mr. Thomson to that time-worn but in this case extremely appropriate fable of the fox and the grapes. I feel called upon to ask why he should have interested his famous Tangos to be played by a "Village Band," why he should indulge in a play of terms like "sheet-music trade, "familiar restaurant repotory," and "a tender and devoted skill," and why as a candidate for position of Conductor of the Pierian Orchestra last fall, he should now cry for another Davison...