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...having been a hardy mountaineer, is a radio enthusiast. As he awaited .the inventor's approach, as he fingered the gold medal he was about to bestow, the Pope may have reflected momentarily upon just a few of the week's news items, indicative of the vast sphere which this intense, blue-eyed, light-haired Italo-Hibernian set in motion as a youth only 30 years ago. The Pope may have realized...
...production disappoints. Irene Bordoni, brilliant, charming in her own, more Aphroditian sphere, as a young man, indifferent. Masculine naiveté differs from the feminine: it exacts of an actress a talent at least equal to Maude Adams'. The lines have either suffered in translation or the good people of London and Paris, in their enthusiasm for glorifying Mozart, read a great deal into them. One or the other may explain why the play succeeded on the Continent while failing to stir the North American emotions. The music by Reynaldo Hahn is undistinguished...
...Ever since the foundation of the Republic, 15 years ago last October 10th, the problem of unification has been a thorn in the flesh of patriotic Chinese. China has been divided laterally by the Progressive and Conservative factions, sectionally by rival generals, each with his sphere of influence, his private ambitions, and his protestations of 'loyalty to the Constitution'. Each militarist has made the national chaos an excuse for 'punitive expeditions' against his opponents, while foreign powers have seen in China's disorder a sound reason for declining to treat her as an equal in the family of nations...
Then in my nether sphere...
...Babson speaks, as always, on the basis of sound and undeniable facts. It his position he is faced daily with the reality that materialism is on the way to becoming a Frankenstein, devouring its own products anti destroying its newly created benefits. Left to its own sphere commercialism, which is merely a scornful name for business sagacity, is a genuine contribution to the progress of man; to prove it one has only to compare office methods of today with those of a quarter of a century ago. But commercialism ceases to be a blessing when it enters other fields besides...