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...that those in authority have decided that in lieu of the vanished pomps of yesteryear, the public is at least entitled to a few good belly laughs and for this reason are relaxing their vigil over our entertainment. If we can't afford to be decadent we can at least have our humor more rudimentary. There are abounding proofs that standards are becoming more liberalized. "Hot Pepper," a McLaglon-Lowe comedy coming to the University Theatre in the near future, is a good case in point...
...that baloting of yesteryear which the CRIMSON conducted on Prohibition, it might well be asserted by one of your editors that "Those who drink are not supposed as being capable of deciding about repeal or modification." If that were the case, your little poll (with all unqualified votes subtracted) would have brought in lily-white results...
...conclusions: 1) "The Russian workman finds that the lash of yesteryear has been thrown away?the lash that, when stoutly laid across his shoulders, taught him to obey orders as given and get a move on"; 2) "No two Russians can do anything whatsoever without at least a half hour's preliminary conversation"; 3) "The effort a Russian must put forth in order to secure the most rudimentary essentials for sustaining life under the Soviet sweating process would make a man rich in America...
...with its heat, dust and Tercentenary-isms, he must admit, is rather an abrupt change from the invigorating freshness of the Arctic summer. But it seems that the season for vagabonding has begun once again, so the pleasures of a past summer will have to join the shows of yesteryear and the present situation dispatched as efficiently as possible...
...thus far been a hollow mockery. Traditional paraphernalia like the call of the silvery Reinhardt has been dragged out in a pathetic effort at cheeriness. Nowhere has to been recognized that the play was not wrong, but the setting. At last someone has wondere; where are the gowns of yesteryear...