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There are many more details in the saga of Mrs. Bolivar E. Kemp, all faithfully reported by the newspapers, all either ignored editorially or considered as just so many more gems in Senator Long's crown of folly. Senator Long seized power in Louisiana by a coup of this same kind, he has retained it by a series of them, but all of this is treated, not as a sign of the times, but as an individual eruption unrelated to the larger questions of the forum. Why is Long in Louisiana less of a political phenomenon than Mussolini in Italy...
From the newsprints of Chicago comes a mellow little saga regarding the American Legion Convention held there last week. In the lobby of the Palmer House, one of the nation's most placid and unruffled hostelries, a number of legionnaires were disporting drunkenly in their underclothing when some veteran wag possessed himself of a knife and cut loose. Even Chicago the unshockable found this rather heavy footed, and were it not that the Legion constituted a sacrosanct mine of large emotions and useful votes, the reformers would certainly have reached for their hatchets and carved its scalp...
Though the late good John Galsworthy has been dead nearly a year, this posthumous novel, says Publisher Scribner, was finished six months before his death (in January 1933). One More River winds up the Charwell (pronounced Cherrell) saga neatly enough, though Author Galsworthy had the serial habit too strongly not to leave a few threads dangling. Better than its two predecessors (Maid in Waiting, Flowering Wilderness), it should remind even impatient critics of Galsworthy that, in the words of one of his characters, "he may be an old buffer, but he's a nice...
...Charles R. Brown, who is Dean Emeritus of the Yale Divinity School, and who will preach in the Chapel on November 26. And we were reminded of the fine legends with which Mr. Lucius Beebe was accustomed to clothe the Rev. Mr. Brown. According to this saga, Mr. Brown was an "Ecclesiastical Barnum," who brightened his heyday by acquiring a considerable skill in ventriloquism. It appears that it is never difficult for a preacher to evoke attention from his audience by calling out upon the heavens and its inmates. But, if Mr. Lucius Beebe is to be credited...
...This Day and Age, DeMille's crowd scenes, his overemphatic tricks of narration, his kindergarten dialog, produce a queer effect of compelling attention without being in the least convincing. After seeing the picture audiences should be better able to credit the most recent additions to the Hollywood saga about DeMille. Back from a preview of The Sign of the Cross, in which the thing the crowd liked best was Charles Laughton's brilliant high comedy performance as Nero, Director DeMille whispered sadly to a confrere: "I have something terrible to tell poor Charlie. The audience laughed...