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Americans would understand. But in Europe, they do not understand this giant of the Senate, his primitive background, and incalculable idealism. In Europe they believe that all politicians are realists. Non-partisan experts have said for years that debts and reparations should be cancelled, that the Polish Corridor was an invention of the devil, but these honest opinions in the mouth of a politician are for Europe nothing short of deadly weapons of aggression. Warsaw's newssheets shouted "Borah, a German Agent," the mildest adjective that Paris papers found for him was "naïve." Intentionally...
...constitutes a while, and sing in a rather business-like fashion some good choruses that one can not remember. Queenie Smith is most of the show, as the headlines indicate, but even her contributions are not highly inspired. The fact that she can do well enough without a striking background only adds to her due of praise. The other individual parts are not badly done. The story is nothing unusual and arouses only casual interest. But then few people attend musical comedies for the stories. The music and the show are the things and in the case of the "Little...
Everybody's Welcome is a musi-comedy version of last season's comedy Up Pops the Devil, which retains just enough of the original story & dialog to provide Frances Williams, Oscar Shaw, Jack Sheehan and Cecil Lean with an adequate background for their monkey business. Love in a Greenwich Village flat becomes love in a penthouse, with the Empire State Building (minus the new red light) instead of the moon looking benevolently through the window. Mild satire on the writing business becomes broad burlesque of the giant "Proxy" cinemansion. A minor character in the original play becomes Frances...
...college journal owes no debt to any class or institution, save to the university which supports it. Its financial debt is to the student body. Its second debt is to the nourishing background of information and ideas which may intellectualize its efforts towards sanity. Its liberalism consists in the evaluation of first principles behind collegiate structure whether it be athletic, academic, or social. As for criticism of affairs outside of college to borrow a motto from a more conservative colleague: Dulce est periculum. If there is any sustaining editorial faith it must be a faith in the natural death...
...Intellectual Background of the 18th Century," Professor Brinton, Harvard...