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Stagecraftsmen who believe that it takes a series of seductions to convince an audience that their characters are in love with each other should witness Uncle Vanya. For although Playwright Chekhov alters the relations of his nine characters not one whit during the entire play, when the bells of their carriages tinkle away offstage, taking Miss Gish back to Moscow and Dr. Astrov back to his practice, the audience is well aware that it has witnessed a subtle, intense, ably handled series of human emotions...
Novelist (The Brought on House), essayist (The American Mind), biographer (Walt Whitman, Whit tier), he is a sparkling ingredient of Boston's erudite Tavern Club. There, in the little Colonial clubhouse hiding in a courtyard behind the Touraine Hotel, he converts fellow members to the Americanisms and poetics of Walt Whitman. With Professor Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland he attends the club's dinners, carrying lighted taper in hand, singing "Wreathe the bowl with flowers of soul." and wearing a bright-hued vest with evening dress. To recognize the decade in which a member was admitted, each Tavern Clubman...
Since the alacrity of Mayor Walker's political opponents to pooh-pooh the idea of their being connected with such underhanded operations as wire-tapping was matched only by the promptness with which the Mayor himself assured the public he cared not a whit if they did listen, one must conclude that some motive lying deeper than matters of state actuated the recent listening in on the Mayor's telephones...
...music for the dance will be supplied by an orchestra made up of leading musicians picked from various Boston orchestras by Howard Whit more '29. Boxes and tables will be placed in the Delta, and will be furnished and decorated by the Committee. The larger boxes, holding from 12 to 16 occupants, will be near the Hall, while the smaller ones, holding from six to eight, will be situated in the middle of the Delta. Two of the boxes and six of the tables will be reserved for the patronesses, whose names are to be announced later...
...Navy Department argument has been like that of a fire-chief who insists upon having for his men hose-nozzles and helmets no whit inferior to those considered necessary by the experienced chief of a neighboring town. Professional reputations are at stake as well as national safety. The Navy Department, and its "second to none" statement, were rather the agents than the reagents of the Coolidge speech. The common object was to put momentum behind the Department's cruiser-building bill (15 cruisers, 1 aircraft carrier) which got delayed in the last session of Congress and which...