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...trivial vehicle, reinforced by capable support from the actors; there is no high level of credibility, and the lines are not sparkling. Accept it as a play of situation, and recognize that no mental effort is necessary. Take your Princeton friends, they'll like it, even if they pan the Southern accent of the cast...

Author: By R. K. L., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/3/1926 | See Source »

...alone in his ire. From public print to public print the story went and was made much of, fondled by those who see in college the best kind of news, flutor unfit to print. Last Sunday the trivial little editorial was used as the text for a sermon. Perhaps is was only asking sanctuary, like the hero of Galsworthy's new play. At all events it received little. The gentleman of the clergy was strong in his denunciation. And he was not completely wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ERRATUM | 10/19/1926 | See Source »

...Peaches'* Browning, Jack Dempsey and the world series. Said I: 'I consider calling that little hussy, "Peaches," a reflection on peach dishes or brandy, and the less said about her husband the better. There is no fool like an old fool. But let us dismiss this trivial gossip and consider subjects of importance to the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 18, 1926 | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...charm of regal remoteness to take their common place in the Sunday supplements of the prints with the retired wives of senile plutocrats, the defenders of ward politics, and the leading in dies in musical comedies. Nor is this to be wondered at. There is no reason why such trivial handicaps should force this continued residence among American tourists. Arrived here; Queen Marie, like many others, will meet that little bruited creature, the quiet, sane American--and she may effect a union of aristocracy Roumanian with plutocracy American to the amusement, not to say betterment of both nations. Even queens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENTLEMEN, THE QUEEN | 10/13/1926 | See Source »

...influence of Salt Lake City will be greatly increased possessing as it does the only Handbook of Rules on the subject. Secondly, a preponderance of power can easily be obtained by any single sovereign hold enough, whenever occasion demands, to make the matrimonial venture. The above problems are, however, trivial compared with the various domestic difficulties that will unquestionably arise. For it is, indeed, doubtful if any prince now living possesses those queer qualities of genius of Brigham Young...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. R. H. JOSEPH SMITH | 10/8/1926 | See Source »

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