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Representative Kelly (Republican) of Pennsylvania, was obliged to turn away a pension seeker. Saying that he "thought such patriotic service should be rewarded," Mr. Kelly was yet obliged to inform the applicant that Uncle Sam had no special pensions for mothers who bore twins...
...steeple-jack writes for the Sunday supplements, the lion tamer has his picture upon every back fence in town. But in India one may follow the weirdest of trades and yet remain in the obscurity which surrounds an office clerk. It is a land of plenty for the interview-seeker: -and the interviews can be written in this country...
These are the plays, which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important: PEER GYNT-Ibsen's tragi-comic epic of the seeker of self-realization, effectively staged by Kommisashevsky, master of the Russian School of Expressionism, and competently acted by Joseph Schildkraut. Some of the settings by Lee Simonson mark the high points in his enviable record of artistic achievement. ROMEO AND JULIET-Next to Hamlet the longest run a Shakespearean play has enjoyed in America in the current century. Superbly acted by Jane Cowl and Rollo Peters. MERTON OF THE MOVIES - The pathos of hokum. Glenn...
PEER GYNT-" Down the vast edges drear" of a hard-hearted world Ibsen leads his epic hero on the futile quest of the meaning of lite. Peer, the boaster, the seeker of self-realization and the victim of a relentless wanderlust, is played by Joseph Schildkraut. Lee Simonson's settings are eerily effective...
...CRIMSON has on hand several anonymous communications, in particular, one under date of January 4, entitled "Bolshevism," and signed by "A seeker." As we make a rule of printing no unsigned communications we are withholding this and others like it from publication. Their authors may obtain them by calling at the CRIMSON office...