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Last week in Philadelphia Revelry had its first night. Dramatized by Maurine Watkins (author of the play Chicago) from a novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams, it purported to reveal the degeneracies and deceptions to which the U. S. Government descended during the Harding administration. Said a critic: "It tells a sordid story of misplaced trust and unseemly gorging at the public treasury...
...League for Justice." Robert Morss Lovett of Chicago, Boston- bred English scholar, educator, critic, liberal publicist, who had long been active in the Citizens' National Committee for Sacco & Vanzetti, issued a call for the formation, at a caucus, in Manhattan, of a Sacco-Vanzetti League for Justice. He and others had drafted aims for such a league...
When Deems Taylor resigned as music critic of the New York World to compose the first really successful U. S. opera, The King's Henchman, he lifted his keen, stocky self from a platform of newspaper authority to a pinnacle of international fame. Ordinarily, the fortunates who are able to take such a stride, seldom retrace their steps. But, according to Mr. Taylor, "newspaper work is like drink. The only way for some to quit is to have left it alone in the first place." So he accepted the position of editor of Musical America, and introduced his regime last...
...There is also a formal dedication, to the late Critic Stuart P. Sherman...
...word of deep appreciation for the highly intelligent letter of Mr. Frank Vincent Waddy, on the subject of our vituperate critic, Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse. Mr. D. D. seems to have brought the skies crashing down upon his head...