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...Toes. When Lady, Be Good made its immense success, the producers determined its companion piece should be no whit less entertaining. They engaged the same authors and the brilliant George Gershwin for the tunes. Queenie Smith, Andrew Tombes, Allen Kearns and Harry Watson were collected for the principal parts. Considerable cash and no little taste went into scenery and clothing. The net result is 'excellent, but many feel it just a trifle below the astonishingly high standard of the earlier display...
...America seems not a whit appalled by the apparent futility of her experiment. Perhaps its sequel proves that the great majority of mankind is immune to any extraordinary intellectual growth. Education, beyond its elementary stages, implies a capacity for development which may be non-existent in the majority...
...Frank, President of the University of Wisconsin, whilom editor of the Century, appeared in a recent issue of the Editor and Publisher (TIME, Sept. 21) many people were ready to excuse the poor taste of such ballyhooing on the score: 1) that Mr. Frank's abilities were no whit diminished by the undue noise being made over them, and 2) that he, quite possibly, knew nothing whatever about the advertisement. Last week, however, the Washington Post issued a quarter-page thesis which sought to "sell" President be equally lenient in our judgment of this one. Exceeding even the suggestion...
...homeward bound" pennant 170*ft. long, decked with 13 stars, some of which had perforce been snipped out of pink lingerie, wriggled and writhed in the breezes of New York harbor. Beneath it, no whit discomfited by the exuberant blasts of a steam whistle, there moved toward an uptown dock: Jeweled crabs, fish with eight "hands," fish with transparent panes set into their stomachs, fish with navigation lights, sex-appeal lights, food-luring lights, fish with folding films of luminous bacteria, a devilfish with a beam of 18 ft., parasite fish with suckers on their heads for clinging...
There is evidence that, at coeducational institutions of the U. S., polite social intercourse suffers no whit from stiff formality or inefficient organization. A fortnight ago, women students at the University of California challenged men students to debate the question of whether or not ladies, when invited out to meals or other entertainments by gentlemen, had the right to bear a share in the expenses incurred...