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...scenery in the Russian drama is particularly significant, "continued Professor Pope, "because it plays a more integral part in producing the atmosphere of the piece. The stage set does not, in the Russian theatre, represent merely a locality for the action of the play, nor a more background for the players; the attempt is always to produce, through the scene, an effect on the audience corresponding with the spirit of the piece...
...freely asserted that all parties ran more or less amuck over the tariff, and forced into the background the important issues of: 1) Senate reform. 2) Tax reforms. 3) Immigration. 4) Transportation. Since "the will of the electorate" is now an obscure oracle on all of these important questions of Government policy, it is certain that there will soon be much reading between the votes by Canadian statesmen...
...Colonies under Mr. Lloyd George; as British representative on the Council of the League of Nations in 1923; and as Minister of Agriculture in the present Cabinet, he has had wide experience in states-craft if not a scintillant career. In India his experience and his aristocratic background will well become the Viceregal Lodge at Delhi. Meanwhile historians turned, to contemplate the retiring Viceroy; prepared to write the Earl of Reading down as one who has dominated India with tactful potency since...
...leaves everyone grasping the plush cloak-hanger ropes. In the lantern-lit interior of an empty refrigerator car ride four characters, the weeds of humanity's garden, playing poker--an unctuous card-sharping deacon, an Italian escaped convict, a thug, and a young hobo, who has had a conventional background. As the freight pulls out of a middle Western town, a girl disguised as a boy hops it. The crowd, not deceived, cuts the deck for her. The deacon wins. Smash goes the lantern. A shot, and a couple leap from...
Such at least was the announcement that Mr. Firestone made last week. The background for this story is that the British and Dutch control 97% of the world's rubber production. Britain has placed legal restrictions on rubber production which has boosted the price in a few months from about 25¢ or 30¢ a pound to more than...