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William Faversham pronounces even the simplest line as either a benediction or a curse. Arnold Daly is a living exhibit of all the tricks of the trade, flourished one after the other. Arnold Korff, who made a distinct impression in The Living Mask (TIME, Jan. 28), here sounds at times like Eddie Foy. Lowell Sherman, save for one or two humorous moments, is hysterical and seems to be constantly limbering up his fingers for typewriter work. Even the extremely honest, intuitive Helen Gahagan gets a little off key from the general falsetto...
...Bolsheviks, I bear them no more resentment for the harsh treatment which I myself received at their hands then I should if I had suffered bodily injury from a man under the influence of cocaine. They are subject to the most absurd fantasies whose source may be the simplest of facts. The Bolsheviks have a lively imagination, they can start with nothing and arrive at the most exciting conclusion...
Amelita Galli-Curci sang farewell. Thunderous applause mixed with tears of regret at her departure-not so much for her brilliant coloratura airs, bedizened with strings of pearly scale-flights, as for the glamor which the purity of her tone cast over her simplest encore-ditties. That was perhaps most people's idea of what the "song of the nightingale" should...
...ground, the landing gear itself disappears within the wing. In flight nothing will be seen but a vast wing; air resistance and fuel consumption will thus be reduced to an absolute minimum. The design may mark the culmination of many years' work to reduce the airplane to its simplest and most economical embodiment...
...Prince Kuni, grandson of a former 'Emperor, represented Japan in the U. S. in 1909 at the Hudson-Fulton celebration. During her infancy he was at the Russo-Japanese front. Her mother sprang from the clan of Satsuma, stern in virtue. Nagako, aged 21, was born in the simplest of imperial residences. She attended the Peeresses' School when General Nogi was its President. Japan regards her as "the personification of beauty, virtue and love...