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...relative justice and intelli gence shown in the awards. Meanwhile the weary judges, let us hope, are recuperating in some pleasant clime unvexed by newspaper-clippings. It must be the devil of a business, hunting among contemporary books and plays for a Cinderella to fit the little glass slipper...
Especially when the glass slipper is made to such definite specifications as Mr. Pulitzer's. Most patrons who give such prizes seem quite unable to do it without various qualifications. And, no adequate Bertillon system having yet been invented for literature or the drama, these qualifications ? except where they concern matters of ascertainable fact, such as the citizenship of the author, or the year of a play's nativity ? must, in general, be dodged when the time comes for the award of the laurel wreath. Very sensibly, too?but, why have the qualifications in the first place? Could...
...were to admit personalities as scientific or argumentative (which Heaven forbid), we might conceivably, as a pastime, consider the Morris-chair and bedroom-slipper variety of economist in the same breath with the statesman and economist who is building a great nation on a new co-operative principle, might we not, and declare our peculiar preference? J. LESLIE HOTSON...
...amusement part of the program will begin with an animated cartoon, "Colonel Heeza Liar," followed by a Triangle comedy entitled, "The Bathtub Pals." The feature will be a five-reel picture of Anita Stewart in "My Lady's Slipper." The University Hawaiian instrumental quartet will play several selections, and a 25-piece undergraduate orchestra, led by J. M. Parmelee '19, will furnish music during the pictures...
...moving picture program will start with an animated cartoon, probably "Mutt and Jeff," and a two-reel comedy. Anita Stewart in "My Lady's Slipper," a five-reel picture, will be the feature of the evening. This picture produced a sensation at the first 1919 smoker. The University Hawaiian instrumental quartet will play several selections, while a 25-piece undergraduate orchestra, led by J. M. Parmelee '19, will furnish music during the pictures...