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When the Actors' Equity Association was formed some years ago, it was implied and assumed that although its aim was largely to protect the actor from the questionable practices of a certain type of intinerant manager, it would not extend its influence to unreasonable lengths. Recently, however, in making its demand for an "Equity shop", which is a polite euphemism for the unpleasant connotation of "closed shop", it has shown distressing symptoms...
...great orator† (of the inspirational type produced in the 1890's), he has preached to a great part of the 1,800,000 Presbyterians in the U.S., at nearly every great international conference, in nearly every country. Under him, Foreign Missions has developed from the pioneer stage into a great civilizing force. Like Roosevelt, he is a lover of nature, an omnivorous reader with encyclopedic mind...
...Huntington, W. Va., resolutions were passed against kissing games at children's parties. Endorsed by the Parent-Teachers' Association and the County Medical Association, the resolutions declared that such games "might lead to worse" and are a "very low type of entertainment which for many reasons should be discontinued...
...very low type of entertainment which for many reasons should be discontinued...
...such works, should they need support, ought to have a patron even at the expense of hob-nobbing with less aristocratic press-mates. There is no need on the other hand of encouraging incipient novelists or poets, but, as has been suggested by the Bulletin, more books of the type of President Lowell's "Public Opinion in War and Peace", which are finding presses elsewhere, might be profitably printed...