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...whole indicts marriage on a charge of economical absurdity parading under an alias of natural necessity. For all its whirring the play grinds no ax in the presence of the audience. It succeeds because it stages the battle of Rent v. Romance as essential drama. It is the best U. S. comedy of the season. Rejected by several producers, it is brilliantly directed by Guthrie McClintic in his first venture with the Actors' Theatre. The cast is uniformly excellent...
Many movements have been started from time to time to preserve the tract from the lumberman's ax...
Watch them as they march, O fair Vermont! . . . Coolidge dreaming over a furrow, Balancing a testy problem As he swings the ax over cordwood. He in a man of your mountains, He is a man of your hills. Firm and honest and gentle. Leader and honest citizen- He Is a man of your breeding- Coolidye-man of the mountains
...Fascist newsorgan II Tevere explained editorially last week why, of four recently awarded Nobel Peace Prizes, not one went to an Italian. Wrote the editor: "Fascismo wants justice for itself and others and has no ax to grind under false pretenses of peace. . . . [Referring to the Nobel award of Vice President Dawes]. Some nations unable to bear the burdens of victory fell prey to so-called economists who were nothing more than agents of international finance. The Dawes Plan aims to give the great War the judicial verdict of a bankruptcy trial. Where is there peace in all this...
...Meanwhile, "Jim," famed gobbler from the President's Plymouth (Vt.) farm, escaped the ax for the second time. Last year he was intended to grace the table of a U. S. Thanksgiving Day banquet in London. Queen Alexandra died (TIME, Nov. 30, 1925), so the dinner was canceled. This November, the chef of the Savoy said that "Jim" was too tough, despatched him back to a peaceful old age on his Kent farm. ¶The second story and roof of the White House are in need of repairs which may take six months to complete. So next March, after...