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...these days of censorship, rumor and uncertainty the American journal has found a ripe field for the interpretation of news according to its own desires. Given any bit of information from abroad, a casual glance at the morning papers will discover no end of variation in its presentation and emphasis. Moreover, in the last year there has been combined with this a spirit of artificial patriotism which attempts to make all news good news. In huge headlines we see that the French have advanced, while below, in some obscure corner, it is asserted that the Germans have made no appreciable...
...theme, too, was remedy and not defect. I had aimed to give, in the "Illustrated," a bit of advice that seems sometimes to have helped young men when they face that troublesome problem of choosing a life career. In very condensed form that advice is, to bear in mind that those interests and proclivities which one acquired spontaneously as a boy, outside of the schoolroom, and which one has more or less kept up or more or less neglected during the more exacting years of high-school and college, that those proclivities are still a part of oneself. They...
There will be a distinct war aspect to the four one-act plays to be given at the third private performances of the 47 Workshop tonight and tomorrow night at 7.45 o'clock in the Pi Eta Theatre. Three of the plays--"Every Man's Bit," "The Readjustment" and "Free Speech"--deal either directly or indirectly with subjects growing out of the war. All of them are written, acted and managed by students of Professor Baker's English 47 course...
...Every Man's Bit," written by Miss Lois Compton of Radcliffe, deals with a British slacker who is reformed and forced to enlist by the occurrence of a Zeppelin raid on London which kills his little girl. The former brutal father and husband is brought to his senses by this tragedy...
Tomorrow's production will be a set of four one-act plays written by students in English 47. The first of the plays, "Every Man's Bit," was written by Miss Lois Compton of Radcliffe. Hubert Osborne, Sp., holder of the MacDowell Fellowship in Dramatic Composition, is the author of the second playlet, entitled "The Readjustment." The third composition, "Dayspring," is by J. R. Freome, Sp., and the final production, "Free Speech," is by W. L. Prosser...