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Playwright Anderson, whose simple maxim is that "somebody must write verse plays," has clothed his piece intentionally as well as unintentionally in an uneven variety of poetic fabric. Much of the common street speech of his criminals and vagrants is good stout tow-sacking. Much of the overlong excursion into the philosophy of justice, to judge by audience reaction, is tiresome shoddy. But pure chamfered silk, most observers agreed, were the tender, spontaneous love passages between Mio and Miriamne (Margo), Garth's mercurial younger sister, a curious and strangely apposite East Side Juliet...
...role as the offspring of the romance of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. They knew Lady Paget, friend of Queen Victoria, theosophist who made her own shoes and who predicted the World War and the Russian Revolution. They entertained Duse, who appeared with a genius in tow, a grim, self-assured, masculine-appearing girl who immediately began chasing her hostess all over the house and garden. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas appeared, as well as Gordon Craig and a host of others less eminent but no less vital, most of them distinguished by a love of art and sultry...
...beneficial principles of social and economic justice of any living American political economist." That Franklin Roosevelt had taken a potent critic into camp seemed to be confirmed last week when Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the Securities & Exchange Commission rolled up to Hyde Park with Father Coughlin in tow. So discreetly was this reunion between President and Priest handled that the Press did not know about it for 24 hours. Even the nature of the meeting or its results were kept a dead secret by both parties...
...performance abroad, when he lasted only one round at Wimbledon, lost to Perry, Austin and von Cramm in Davis Cup play, that, at 30, he had passed his peak as an athlete. Day after his match against Perry last week, Allison's opponent was the brilliant, tow-haired, temperamental Sidney Wood, who had reached the final by beating Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, who had upset ailing young Donald Budge. Faced once more with a chance for a major championship, Allison finally took it, in one of the most one-sided finals in Forest Hills history...
...must save State property. The fact that the Communist Party's own agent aboard the Soviet had endorsed the captain's decision failed to baffle the State Prosecutor. "I denounce you, Comrade Miguschenko," he cried. "You should have led a mutiny against the order to cut the tow line! You should have taken charge of the men, locked up the captain as an enemy of the proletariat, and led the crew to the rescue of the tanker...