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...another earnest attempt to score, but again fumble the ball. Here is a disorderly study of a New England mother who lets conscience be her guide once too often. Early in life she forgives her husband his daily embezzlement. She helps him make restitution and get an opportunity to steal again. Under her plastic indulgence he smashes a bank, smashes himself, drives a friend to suicide, becomes the complete flop. After his death his grown son peculates too; heredity extends to bond thefts...
...Malaviya and others have expressed their views on the situation and a "grand assembly" has been organized to reform the Faith and set it back on its pure philosophic foundation. The non-conversion policy of Hindu Dharma had made it possible for the missionary religions of the world to steal away Indian population into their faiths by several unreligious methods, but thanks are due to Pandit Malaviya and Swami Shradhamanda that they realized the gravity of the "game of grab" and started the reconversion of those who had gone into other religions. People by hundreds have returned to Hinduism after...
...interesting to hear stories of her youth--how one day she had to steal some "polenta" to appease her hunger when playing Juliet how she played to an empty house on her first appearance at Vienna in "La Dame aux Camelias" and to an over-flowing audience the next night how she always scorned jewels and adornment, and how she made such expressive use of her hands that legend relates she would sometimes "lay them to rest within a velvet box" after a performance. Those who see her in either of her two Boston performances will find a more tangible...
...respect are the two productions absolutely equal that is in the number of bootleggers in each production. The members of the play committee were particularly careful to explain that these unconstitutional characters had nothing to do with liquor. But some one had to step through sliding panels to steal the family silverware, and so the authors decided that it might just as well be bootleggers...
...things called country towns is vastly cynical. Shaggy Genius has usually written a play. After interminable weeks, the play has come back, eternally damned with the faint praise of the rejection slip. Therefore Shaggy Genius believes that managers do not read plays. Those that they read, he believes, they steal. No one but the established playwrights have a chance. Shaggy Genius stops writing plays and returns to the banalities of the barnyard...