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Nothing, it seems to me, can characterize Professor Stuart P. Sherman's latest collection of essays better than the motto he has chosen to put on the title page...
Having thus informed us in an introduction of the scope and purpose of his work, Professor Sherman begins with the essay which gives the book its title. As a jumping-off point, he describes a "boosters dinner" which has been thrown into consternation by the representative of the arts who refuses to have anything to do with the apostles of "pep and progress". The dinner incident past, we have the author's own point of view. Firmly yet gently, he would lead the talent of America from the footsteps of W. L. George, Theodore Dresier and Mr. Spingarn. Instead...
...Government lost its suit to enjoin the New York Coffee ant Sugar Exchange. Four Federal judges refused to grant the requested injunction against trading in sugar futures, on the ground that no conspiracy in violation of the Sherman Act or the Wilson Tariff Act was revealed. Attorney General Daugherty announced his intention of appealing the decision to the U. S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile U. S. District Attorney Hayward has issued subpoenas upon sugar brokers to produce their books before the Federal Grand Jury, with the implication that a Grand Jury investigation into the sugar market was projected, although aimed...
...first among the well-greaved theatrical Achaians? Who hotly pressed forward first to commence the ardent one-act struggle for the bays? Who, but the Little Theatre of Bridgeport in The Rut, a drama by Sara Sherman Pryor? From the rising of the curtain upon that production on Monday to the falling of it upon the last scene of The Monkey's Paw, by W. W. Jacobs, produced by the Montclair Players of Montclair on Friday, how the gallant conflict raged...
Service Committee.--Sherman Hall of Yale; Charlton MacVeagh...