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Faced with another year of sloshing through mud ooze and runwater, the Society phoned the Cambridge Public Works Department and issued a formal complaint. Commissioner William R. McMenimen replied that he would look at the 12-foot strip this morning and decide whether to cover it with a stone-dust fill...
...Statesman and Nation's Desmond Shawe-Taylor wore a this-hurts-me-more-than-you look: "The grumble that events are too many and the day too crowded is merely frivolous . . . More serious is the complaint that this festival has no natural focal point, as Salzburg has in Mozart, Bayreuth in Wagner, and Aldeburgh in Britten; this is true and perhaps a pity . . . but what sort of festival could be constructed out of purely Scottish material...
...there was also an old complaint. Said the Daily Mail: "A bewildering muddle of a play." The Daily Express agreed: "[The playgoers] were . . . absorbed in laughing at his agile wit and trying to puzzle out just what he was getting at. The cast shared their bewilderment. At the end of the dress rehearsal, some of them were saying: 'Beautiful words, but what do some of them mean?'" By week's end, it seemed a good bet that West End and Broadway audiences would also soon get a chance to laugh-and puzzle over-The Cocktail Party...
...Dying City. Despite Ta Rung Pao's complaint, Shanghai was well on the way to becoming an economic graveyard. Industrial production was down an estimated 50%, and still falling. "The Chin Chong Iron Works," read an item in the press, "is trying to sell electric fans for 30,000 jenminpiao each (about $12 U.S.), which is only sufficient to cover labor costs, but there are no buyers...
Slow Burn. In Westerly, R.I., Mrs. Carrie M. Crandall wrote to the city clerk of Worcester, Mass, with a complaint: "About 1889 or 1890 I fell into an open coal chute in front of the Hotel Pleasant...and I think the city should pay me something for my injuries...