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...passion by conceiving a child; but before the crippled husband--far too crippled to be a father--finds aught amiss, he awakes one morning, dead. Everything would have been all right had not the perspicacious nurse discovered that an overdose of sleeping powders had killed him. This Nurse Wayland had loved the handsome cripple in her own starved, soulful way. She accuses the adulterous wife, but lives to be convinced that "Chastity is a very good thing, but not the whole of virtue." Who killed the cripple, and why, is skillfully unfolded in a tense final act. Everybody is good...
...Manhattan, influenza forced these actresses and singers to cancel scheduled performances: Eva Le Gallienne, Judith Anderson, Alice Brady, Lily Pons, Mary Garden, Also ill last week lay: President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk in Prague and Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick in Manhattan, both with influenza ; Governor Charles Wayland Bryan, of coronary artery disease, in Lincoln, Neb.; Showman Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel, after an abdominal operation, in Manhattan...
...Harvard's late great President Charles William Eliot "the most significant movement in American education today." To carry it forward was founded, in 1919, the Progressive Education Association, which now has some 7,000 members. The philosophy of Humanist John Dewey and the work of pioneering Colonel Francis Wayland Parker (1831-1902) of Quincy, Mass. and Cook County, Ill. are implicit in much Progressive teaching. That education at any age should grow out of free individual experience rather than from books is a Progressive fundamental. Because parents who send their youngsters to Progressive schools are of necessity liberal-minded...
Also ill last week lay: Sir Austen Chamberlain, of food poisoning, in London; Governor Charles Wayland Bryan of Nebraska, of a heart attack, in Lincoln, Neb.; Leon Trotsky, of a heavy cold, in Copenhagen; Air Minister Paul Painlevé, of collapse after speaking lengthily in the Chamber of Deputies, in Paris...
...Roxbury, Walter W. Dwyer of Cambridge, Edgar I. Epstein of Brighton, Roberts Mck. Fish of Cambridge, Maurice Fishman of Cambridge, John F. FitzGerald of Newton, John B. Ford of Methuen, Clark W. Freeman of Cambridge, Ellis J. French of Danvers, Dominic R. Freni of Boston, Gerald F. Gilmore of Wayland, Milton J. Goldwasser of Cambridge, Richard S. Green of Somerville, William A. Greene, Jr. of Cambridge, William G. Hanson of Cambridge, John M. Hartwell, Jr. of Belmont, John B. Hawkins of Worcester, Gorge A. Heald of Roslindale, Sibley Higginbotham of Wollaston, Michael S. Hovenanian of Cambridge, Robert C. Hunter...