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MARY, MARY, QUITE CONTRARY? After several years of bad plays, Mrs. Fiske reestablishes herself in a trivial delight by St. John Ervine...
AREN'T WE ALL?-The best light comedy that Broadway has seen for many months. Cyril Maude, Mabel Terry-Lewis and an English cast, most engagingly frivolous regarding certain aspects of matrimony. IN LOVE WITH LOVE-A trivial discussion of why, when and whom a girl should marry made into the semblance of important entertainment by the brilliant playing ot Lynn Fontanne. MERTON OF THE MOVIES-Reveals what is likely to happen when Main Street migrates to Hollywood. Glenn Hunter has made the movie-struck youth a byword in America. TWEEDLES-The old curiosity shop of the Maine coast...
...addition to the open golf championship, one of the greatest " feasts of honor" ever heaped on a Georgia table and a resolution of appreciation from the Georgia legislature. Only was there an echo from Alaska missing. Possibly the sight of Hurricane Gulch, Alaska, persuaded Mr. Harding that bunkers are trivial affairs after all. "But," protest the politicians, " he should respect the golfing voters. There are only 54,000 voters in Alaska-mostly icemen! " " Yes," replies the poor golfer struggling wearily around a crowded Sunday course, " there are a million golfing voters in the States- mostly icemen...
Every man's work is in fact tried by fire, that is, by the most searching test which, in the lapse of time, can be applied. What is trivial or ephemeral is soon destroyed, while that which has permanent merit will endure. It is a laudable ambition to strive to achieve results of lasting value, although these are by no means always the ones that bulk largest at the time or are the most conspicuous. If fame delight, you, if to be talked about, to have your name and portrait in the public press, the object is not difficult...
...took the books to one of the second-hand places,--after another had made me a trivial offer beneath consideration,--and sold them for four dollars and sixty cents...