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...pack the problem of the world into a neat word-pattern, it is necessary to eliminate the matter which does not accord with our preconceived hypothesis. We will see proof for our statement in everyone we meet, and quite ignore the opposing evidence which is apt to be every bit as obvious and sometimes even more frequent...
THIS is the rawest book I have ever seen. It is like a burnt over forest of scrub pine. There is not one bit of human warmth in its two hundred fifty odd pages, just the lowest form of men and women crawling over bleak rock with one cut throat instinct "to persist". To say the book is depressing is to say nothing. "Bottom Dogs" is a social document of man neither civilized nor un-civilized...
Since his entry into the realm of light and "situation" comedy Mr. Dix is a much improved actor over the Dix of racing car melodramas. Tinged with a bit of Shavian deviltry the play depicts the plight of an electrician who for the sum of a few thousand dollars is willing to lower himself and become a gentleman. For some reason, and, she is fairly pleasant, he gets all mixed up in his singleness of purpose. The story ends happily, with Mr. Dix still an electrician. The picture is an amusing satire on the Ward McAllister type...
...sort of thing everyone's been thinking about for a long time. It's been mulling about in the sub-conscious desires of the campus and if it has anywhere come to light, it has only been a kind of wish fancy. Now we want to do a bit of wishful thinking coupled with some real freedom-giving action. Wherefore The Dartmouth comes forth to you waving banners of revolt from the accepted uncomfortable conventional...
...less proven, successful plays which this organization will produce for the next few months in Boston. Their selection is good enough, and if it is possible for them to improve the quality of the acting, they may accomplish the impossible and give Boston a really interesting season. The present bit of histrionics, however, need considerable revision...