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...calling himself "Brogan the Scribe," and by patronizing an unknown publisher, the author of the "Outline of Heaven" has probably furnished his work with an insuperable handicap. That was all very unnecessary, and it makes one doubt the good sense of the writer, for the book is in other regards quite a commonplace and respectable offering. It is an imaginative, but never too imaginative, account of heaven. Like all accounts of heaven it presents the famous rogues and scoundrels who might conceivably be found in heaven, all of whom, as usual, appear a little stiff and formal and uncomfortable under...
Although "Twentieth Century" is, without doubt, the only worthwhile play in Boston this week, playgoers seem to have an aversion to visiting a relatively unknown theatre and are afraid that The Stagers are just another stock company. So that you do not remain one of the deluded, I shall say that the Peabody Playhouse is small, but with excellent acoustics, and that The Stagers are a talented group, merely waiting for a sudden regeneration of the theatre...
...gives indications of going dry; the latest figures from that state are: Against repeal, 33,000; For repeal, 31,000. Pennsylvania returns are overwhelmingly wet, with 96,000 votes for repeal, and 15,000 against it. Ohio is 2-1 in favor of repeal, while Utah and Kentucky are unknown...
...will not be plugged to death. But "The Last Round-Up" started to get out of hand two months ago, the first time Orchestra-Leader George Olsen played it at New York's Paramount Theatre and young Joe Morrison, a member of the Olsen troupe, shy, unaffected, unknown, stepped up to the amplifier and started to sing slowly, to a tender swinging rhythm: I'm headin' for the Last Round-Up, Gonna saddle old Paint for the last time and ride.* The Paramount audience that day suddenly found itself strangely affected, listened as it would have listened...
...most surprising upset of the University Tennis Tournament, Stanley G. Haskins '35 eliminated Franklin P. Whitbeck '35, yesterday afternoon in straight sets, 6-1, 6-2. Haskins is a comparative unknown, while Whitbeck was the captain of his Freshman team. This victory for Haskins places him in the semi-final round...