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...Playgoer shrinks when he realizes how coarsely some may construe his comparison with twentieth-century George White. A good fifty years ago when "Patience" was first played, the streets of London were lighted by gas, Bond Street brightened by a sunflower in the arms of a velveteen breeched young man, later known to his friends as Sebastian Melmouth. To understand this remarkable young man one had to read the Yellow Book, live up to one's blue china, grow long hair, be super-aesthetical, think of lilies, and have a sense of humor; the last qualification is, of course, paradoxical...
...first issue: a lament by Havelock Ellis over the neglect of the psychophysical processes of sex in medical education; an article by Ernest Boyd deriding the pseudo-erudition of the U. S. aesthete, the New Humanists, and what he called The New Republic of Letters; a humorous comparison of U. S. and English publishers by Frank Swinnerton; an insane courtroom scene by Ring Lardner parodying the incoherent meanderings of James John Walker's defense counsel in the ex-mayor's trial before Governor Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.); a vitriolic attack on the Church and censorship...
...comparison with these, there are several from Mexico, the Grand Canyon and Jamaica, where he distinguishes great differences in the color of objects for a richer result...
...were quick. Riot calls brought them from all six North Ireland counties as fast as careening trucks could skid over the roads. As in Dublin in 1916, the rioters started sniping from the rooftops. Belfast police wasted no time, replied with revolvers & rifles. In a few hours the Dublin comparison became even stronger. In from Holywood barracks came a battalion of the Royal Innis-killing Fusiliers with machine guns unlimbered. The King's Royal Rifles were ordered to Belfast as fast as possible. Martial law was not declared officially, but authorities clamped on an 8 p. m. curfew...
...Rice, Westbrook Pegler, Paul Gallico. Damon Runyon. Jack Lait appear momentarily, drinking coffee; Runyon speaks but Pegler is to be recognized only by his right out. In all this welter of authenticity, it is only natural for the story of Madison Square Garden to seem a little unreal by comparison. It is mainly about a young middleweight (Jack Oakie) and his manager (William Collier Sr.). The manager takes the job of matchmaker at the Garden and the middleweight, left to shift for himself, falls into the hands of a racketeering manager. Partly because Oakie's opponent is Mushey Callahan...