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...starring Montgomery & Stone-in 1906. There was no overpowering reason for reviving it now. The Victor Herbert music is nice but hardly notable. The book, jokes and horseplay are not only antiquated for 1945 but were probably no better than average for 1906. Yet this production has the disarming trait of not trying to bridge the years. It makes no effort to scrape any of the red mildew off The Red Mill. Hence the show is an amiable relic. It is frankly a horsecar- not a horsecar pretending...
Respect for authority is a conspicuous Japanese trait, but it is by no means universal. Between 1921 and 1936 the Japs assassinated seven Cabinet members. Japanese history is full of civil war, revolt, secret conspiracy, and disrespect for the Emperor. When Perry opened Japan the government's word was not enough to make Japan safe for foreigners. Disorders ended only after western ships bombarded Shimonoseki...
...height of his success, Harris disparaged it by quoting Critic Percy Hammond's dictum that "the theater is the shell game of the arts." But self-disparagement is not his outstanding trait...
...Krueger's nature to worry; 46 years in the army had increased, if that were possible, his innate stolidity. Worry, he once said, is a feminine trait; then he added, with one of those unexpected smiles which deepen the parenthetic lines about his mouth and the crow's-feet beside his eyes, "When the chips are down, women are usually less nervous than...
...above). When the smoke cleared, the U.S. would see new faces in high places. And in its new Secretary, the State Department had a man who had a powerful resolution to do well. Ed Stettinius is not only friendly, energetic and loyal, but he has still another valuable trait, which was rooted in the days when he had wanted to become a parson. It was a solemn, almost reverential, respect for the responsibility of his new high office. Besides this he has one enormous asset: the general good will of the people of the U.S., who are most anxious...