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...DOCTOR'S DILEMMA-Flawless reincarnation of Bernard Shaw's early cartoon of London doctors...
...recent issue of the Lampoon there was a cartoon--intentionally ridiculous of course--which depicted the Main Reading Room of Widener Library as it would appear on January 3, 1928. Every seat was vacant and cobwebs adorned the walls. Just how humorous he really was, the artist doubtless had no idea--assuming that humor is an exaggerated perversion of the truth. January 3, 1928, came and Widener's halls were comfortably filled. There appeared to be on difference in routine from post-holiday attendance in other years. And yet a remarkable change had been and still is being effected...
Virtually no notice has been taken by sober publications of the huge Hearst headlines regarding anti-U. S. activity in Mexico. The New York World expressed itself in a derisive cartoon; demanded editorially to know why, if Hearst held authentic documents regarding Mexican bribery of the U. S. press, all names and other possibilities of verification were blacked out when facsimilies appeared in Hearst papers. Mr. Hearst thus dodged his only chance to prove the truth of his "news", and by so doing to force reputable publications to print it or such facts about it as their investigators could assemble...
...doors will be open at 7 o'clock, and the entertainment, consisting of motion pictures, music, magic, and refreshments, will begin at 7.30 o'clock. Pictures to be shown will include Rin Tin Tin in "The Clash of the Wolves" and a cartoon comedy. Richard Cart-wright, Boston secretary of the Society of American Magicians, will do a sleight of hand performance, after which refreshments will be served...
...whom it was said (then) that "no man better personifies the insurgent spirit of Kansas." He helped split the Republican Party for Theodore Roosevelt. Of the Six Irreconcilables (the others were Senators La Follette, Cummins, Beveridge, Dolliver, Clapp) he, a veritable Irate Citizen out of some political cartoon, was the hardest worker. "The intensity of John Brown of Ossawatomie and the shrewdness of Vidocq, the French detective," were his. Now, surrounded by silos and shrubbery, he is a peaceable country gentleman with only a "La Follette Avenue" running through his subdivision to recall the stirring past...