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...masse--that is in the fall at the football games and in the spring at the various functions specifically constituted to provide such an opportunity. Such a function is the convention at present in full swing. At it some 1500 delegates have met to renew the associations of yesteryear, and bring back to their respective Clubs possibly something of the spirit with which they were imbued in their undergraduate...
...land where tradition makes bloody Alamo a Bunker Hill and Sam Houston a George Washington. It is now the largest state in the Union, the seat of the Democratic National Convention (at Houston). Bunker's Monthly, however, is no passing boom sheet, no harp twanging the glories of yesteryear. It is substantial in size, pleasing in appearance, broad in editorial content. New Yorkers and Californians can read it with profit...
Here are all the pert buffoonery, sly satire, light irreverence of the Follies of yesteryear. Here, too, are the gay settings of Aline Bernstein, the devastating mimicry of Albert Carroll. "Cautious Cal" sits on a Vermont front porch industriously knitting and singing the praises of isolation. Indignant sex-actors revile District Attorney Banton and padlock censorship in gay lampoon. But over the whole proceedings hangs a dim pall of melancholy. For after the production runs its two weeks' course, the company will disband, the aspiring but indigent Neighborhood Playhouse closes its doors for the last time. Flatly dull...
...improvement in the show-houses themselves. With an increase in the quality of the theatre came naturally films of higher quality. Subjects of more elevating moral status were chosen; higher paid actors and actresses were employed; and the present highest class productions are the result. Today many of yesteryear's popular artists of the stage are now even more popular on the screen...
...request to the press that adverse opinion should not be openly expressed, lest observers from other nations should form the erroneous opinion that sentiment was at times divided on major issues in our national politics, would have been a succulent morsel to the political bear-baiters of yesteryear. But they are dead, and in this day and age a pronunciamento from the White House Spokesman becomes imbued with that same mystic sanctity which enshrouds its author...