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...much heralded youth Sidis, who could add aloud the figures on his nursing bottle and who at the age of 11 was describing to Harvard professors how most accurately to measure the fourth dimension, was discovered by a New York reporter to be working as a clerk in the metropolis for $23 a week. This was proof sufficient for an eager penman, who probably sailed over the college course on a level C, that precocity is a flash in the pan, brilliant but momentary...
...designates as the middle class businessman-husband; the man whose unimportance at the office is in inverse ratio to his assumption of authority at home; the stupid oaf who reads the newspaper aloud to his family ; the man whose conversation is largely confined...
...have been one of the most extraordinary of recent successes. A few years ago, while connected with the Advertising Department of Harper & Bros, publishers, this ingenious fellow hit upon the idea of combining a printed page with a phonograph record. From this the Bubble Books were evolved. You read aloud to the children a story from one of the volumes. At a certain point the text relates that the baby bear sang a song. There follows on the page a slot containing a phonograph record, which you play on the phonograph, thereby demonstrating what the baby bear sang. A running...
...middle of it the little man raised his hands and beat time, and grinned at the audience, and said something. And the man in the row behind one laughed aloud, and then everybody giggled. For the little man was really outdoing himself. And Beethoven died and went to Hell, and everybody was frightfully amused at Mr. de Pachmann...
...respect, however, "The Cat and the Canary" fails as did its fellow, "The Bat". Both plays cry aloud for a solution from beginning to final denouement, but neither supplies a real clue from which the true secret can be deduced. In fact every effort is made to mislead the earnest spectator to a wrong conclusion. But this is an unimportant detail. Anyone who likes to spend an uneasy, riotous evening, and to observe the instability of his neighbor's equilibrium will do well to visit "The Cat and the Canary...