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...Sleeping Prince (by Terence Rattigan) turns on his side now and then, and mumbles and stirs, but never once wakes up. Having given Broadway-in Separate Tables-the season's liveliest theater to date, Playwright Rattigan here blindly scattereth poppy while contriving poppycock. His scene is the Carpathian legation in London at the time of George V's coronation. His "occasional fairy tale" concerns a fetching young American chorus girl whom a Grand Duke invites for supper, and the night. But after a night rendered blameless by too much vodka, she stays on to meet and beguile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 12, 1956 | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...your own books? From these thousands of American colleges and universities, how many 'vital, creative books are born? The university of Walden Pond had "Whim" written above its doorposts, but it bred literature. There was once a type of productive scholar who may be described as "he that scattereth, and yet increaseth", but your amazing and multifarious activity is not much of it wastage rather than growth? Simplify! Coordinate! Find yourselves, and then lift up your hearts...

Author: By Burke BOYCE G, | Title: KINDLY, HUMAN VOLUME OF ESSAYS | 10/26/1923 | See Source »

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