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...unusually fine violin solos by W. Lind, the highly diverting ventriloquist dialogue by M. Perry, the virtuosity of Mr. Benfield upon the marimba xylophone, and Mr. Moynahan's fantastic dance. Against these high lights furnished by individuals, the Banjo Club, the Vocal Cub and the Mandolin Club provided a background of attractive numbers interpreted with unvarying skill. To the directors and the individual members congratulations are in order...
...excellence. The hero, who met the girl in a training camp and tried after the War to make himself a gentleman in an erratically momentous manner, is well played by James Rennie. In case you have not read the novel, Mr. Rennie impersonates a Long Island resident of no background, much money and a dubious method of getting it. Considerably in his way is the girl's husband, whose college education left him, chiefly, with a taste for liquor. The woman golf-champion and others in the semi-smart group that one presumably encounters on Long Island are also around...
...years business manager of the New York World. Probably there is no man in American journalism that has as broad an experience as a journalist and as wide an acquaintance among newspaper men. He knows at first hand all phases of American life; he has, too, a historical background against which to view the present scene in its proper proportion." Now the News writer, looking for some item on which he could compose an editorial that would entertain the chicle-chewing rag, tag and bobtail, happened upon Mr. Seitz's article, and the Outlook's comment upon...
...type, carefully supervised so that "each house, however simple, shall be an artistic gem." Though great estates were being planned-golf clubs, yacht club, huge hotel, casinos-particular attention was being paid to modest private establishments. The public was invited to buy lots as low as $4,000. But "background counts as much as money . . . for society, the came society that decreed the rise and success of Europe's famous watering place-Biarritz-has decided to have its new playground in Florida . . . a cosmopolitan paradise . . . impeccable social and financial powers. . . . Already steamships are plying. . . . Society does not care...
Where the difficulties of the freshman are more profoundly realized, there will be found also initiatory courses, comprehensive in title and often sadly superficial. Their captions picture the grand attempt to inspire an interest in the essentials of current life, a cultural background, and original thinking. "Social and Economic Institutions" at Amherst, "Introduction to Contemporary Civilization" and "An Introduction to Reflective Thinking" at Columbia, Dartmouth's courses in "Evolution" and "Problems of Citizenship", and Princeton's "History, Politics and Economics', all reflect the difficulty of making the horse drink...