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Such an interesting and successful organization as the Cleveland Play-house of Cleveland, Ohio, for instance, is outside his ken. And yet this admirable group of amateurs and semi-professionals has recently concluded a repertory-season including such plays as Candida, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Hindle Wakes, Hamlet, presented with skill and intelligence and receiving the unforced support of its audience entirely upon the merits of its productions. The newly organized Theatre Guild of Philadelphia has already scored a distinct success with two Clare Kummer plays, featuring Lola Fisher as a " visiting star." The Bainbridge Players...
...American bowling team, wandering far from home in search of honor, was defeated by a Swedish team in Stockholm. The Americans thus lost the American Bowling Union Trophy, a $500 cup, which they had taken abroad with them to be placed in international competition as a perpetual challenge trophy...
...have shown so much interest in animals as those who have just returned from expeditions to Australia and South America in search of specimens. Such travel has its compensations. There is considerable distinction in being on terms of familiarity with a live cassowary, to say nothing of a wallaroo. These men derive great satisfaction from pacing the deck with the paw of a wallaby tucked under one arm, and a cortege consisting of a duck-billed platypus, a green opossum and wombats trailing in the rear. One ship brought a huge tortoise, the last of his race, giant lizards, penguins...
...profitless labor, but they will relieve the jammed Patent Offices everywhere. The hordes of perpetual motion machines, trick safety-pins and mechanical dolls that flood these departments represent untold effort by their perpetrators, and no less wasted energy on the part of those who have to catalogue them and search the archives for previous patents. Wisdom in the choice of a subject is certainly as important as subsequent ingenuity in design...
...Abandon Search of River...