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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vogues and Vanities," the musical review lately put on at the Majestic Theatre, has suddenly terminated its run. A sprained ankle on the part of Anna Wheaton one of the stars in the cast, has been advanced as the reason for abandoning further performances of this apparently popular show...
...that a critic in the Literary Review of 'the New York Evening Post places Dr. Crofters' book in a list suitable for the Seventh Age of Reading, for those who are post their prime and have reached the age of at least sixty. It takes all my slight remainder of youthful courage to differ from so high an authority and recommend "The Dame School of Experience" to-a much less aged audience. Essays need not so much age for their enjoyment as a conversational altitude of mind; and there has always been enough talk at Harvard, if not real conversation...
...essays, you can obtain very satisfactory doctrine for a true liberal in the present day. And his doctrine, as Samuel Johnson said of Dr. Blair's "is the best limited, the best expressed; there is the most warmth without fanaticism the most rational transport." VOLUMES CHOSEN FOR REVIEW IN THE CRIMSON'S CHRISTMAS BOOKSHELF December 18, 1920. OUTSTANDING PUBLICATIONS OF 1920. CLASS TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER Fiction. Main Street. Sinclair Lewis. Harcourt. Travel. White Shadows in the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien Century. Biography. Theodore Roosevelt, and Autobiography Scribners. Essays. Dame School of Experience. Samuel Crofters Houghton Miffin. Letters. Familiar Letters...
...review of "June Love" would not be complete without a word about Miss Mitchell as MacIntyre, a Scotch maid whose forceful personality and use of the "absent treatment" causes Charles Brown, as a valet, to forego his single blessedness...
November 29, is destined to witness three Boston openings. "The Sweetheart Shop." a musical comedy from New York; "When We Are Young," a new comedy with Henry Hull; and "Here and There," a review under the management of E. Ray Goets...