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...falling shadows, it issued from its cast of bronze, as genius of the Yard, its customary meditations on the times that were and are no more have because short; and it has found no peace..Strange forebodings fill the air, portent of change and great upheaval. As, in its age-old way, in solitary musings, it sought a moment's observation of the Square, where it was wont to shake its head in self-approbation at the indications of decay the times give forth what glaring new construction stood there, thrown up like a mushroom...
...George Fechtner of the Machinists' Union of New England, a leader in the recent strike at Waltham, addressed the La Follette-Wheeler club last night in the Faculty Room of the Union, and declared that the present progressive political movement is a manifestation of an age-old struggle of the common people to secure better and larger lives for themselves...
...Future British trade, implicating a revival of the age-old Protection versus Free Trade controversy...
Munich has been the scene of a bitter engagement between those age-old foes-Radicals and Conservatives. The Minister of Education took advantage of a recent law (retiring government officials about the age of 65) to oust six conservative professors from the Academy, including the Director, Karl von Marr, American-born. Said Professor von Marr: "These ultra-Modernists are mentally afflicted. They are sick in their heads, and the more I see of their work, the more I become convinced of the fact. Most of them are incapable of learning the simple mechanics of drawing, so they splash their canvases...
...that is longer than his grasp. BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK - Excellent foolery, in which the worm of music turns on big business. THE SHOW-OFF-A highly ticklesome comedy, turning bombast into a fine art. MEET THE WIFE-Two husbands of a flighty wife learning the rueful answer to the age-old question: "Who's boss around here?" THE POTTERS-An American genre study of amusing quality, with oil as the villain. CYRANO DE BERGERAC-Walter Hampden superbly proving that there's no fool like a gallant French fool. FATA MORGANA - An atmospheric, sporty Hungarian comedy in which...