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...minor characters forgetting their lines and a general uncertainty about the mechanics of the piece, but with a few more performances, the entire cast should be able to support Mr. Moscovitch adequately. The use of the same scenery used by George Arliss several years ago provides a very beautiful background upon which to present so much good acting. If the company can get properly organized and Mr. Moscovitch not made too preponderant, there is no reason why this should not become one of the truly superlative productions of "The Merchant of Venice...
...Every statesman should have a solid background of American history. The Constitution, leading books on the Constitution, and the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention, as well as a study of the colonial history of America and the history events that led up to the Revolution and the political ideas in the Declaration of Independence should be thoroughly mastered. The reading of biographies and autobiographies of the founders of the republic and great statesmen such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, John Marshall, Andrew Jackson, and many others, are of tremendous value in furnishing a foundation of political principles...
...Maize and Blue will appear in the Stadium this afternoon for the first time since 1914. In the days before the war teams from Ann Arbor were not infrequent visitors to Cambridge and the memory of those earlier contests furnished an attractive background last fall when Harvard invaded the West. Today, with the 1929 game fresh in mind as a reaffirmation of an old sporting friendship, the University is happy to play host once more to Michigan...
...Tonto Rim, Roping Lions in the Grand Canyon, etc.). He charged neighboring hunters with spreading untrue, derogatory tales about his sportsmanship. Said he: "In twelve years my whole bag of game has been five bears, three bucks and a few turkeys. I have written 15 novels with Arizona background. Personally it cost me $30,000 to get material for one book alone-To the Last Man. My many trips all over the State have cost me $100,000. So in every way I have not been exactly an undesirable visitor. Nevertheless I have been grossly insulted . . . lied about . . . and otherwise...
...familiar, preferably short, something which will not demand such concentration that the audience cannot look around at itself and make merry between curtains, Chicago's first night had a satisfactory brilliance this week. The acoustics were somewhat improved, and Samuel Insulls new rose & gold auditorium was a sumptuous background for Swifts, McCormicks, Ryersons, Fields, Drakes, Dicks and their neighbors. But the fantastic steel curtain (medley of trumpeters, poultry and a naked girl) went up on an opera never before heard in the U. S.: Ernest Moret's Lorenzaccio, based on the play of Alfred de Musset, with Baritone...