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This weakness, if it is a weakness, has been capitalized by the Viking Press. It permitted several eminent men of letters to wonder about the state of society if Booth had missed Lincoln, or if the Moors had won in Spain. The result is a very entertaining little volume of essays which will offer a pleasant evening and perhaps, occasional moments of regret. It must have been a truly delightful task that these men undertook, for no scholar can find them in error...
Appointed. Ottawa's handsome Major William ("Bill") Duncan Herridge, K. C., 42, winner of the D. S. O. Military Cross, and Brigade Majorship in the War, widower of Rose Fleck Herridge, granddaughter of the late John R. Booth who was Canada's richest man (lumber); to be Canadian Minister at Washington...
Father's Son (First National). This is an unpretentious, appealing little picture based on a story by Booth Tarkington and vitalized by Tarkington's flair for writing about adolescents. It tells about a boy who lives in just such a frame house as millions of U. S. boys live in and who diverts himself like these other millions but who has a hard time because his pranks get on the nerves of his pompous father (Lewis Stone). The combat between father and son reaches a climax when the mother leaves home and sets up a separate establishment with...
City Room. At 2 a. m. a rewrite man took pencil and copy-paper into a telephone booth. The subdued hubbub that had filled the room all night died away to silence. Everyone crowded toward the city desk: writers, artists, "legmen" (seldom seen in the office), compositors and pressmen clustered ten deep about the chair of Benjamin Franklin, night city editor. They stood in silence, waiting and wondering with heavy hearts-jobs or no jobs? World or no World...
Charles Moore '78 donated the set of Shakespeare in six volumes, of which one is on exhibition. The set is of great interest, since it is the identical one from which Lincoln read to Senator Summer on the Sunday before his assassination by Booth...