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...starlit heaven the majesty of the sun comes and goes the great men of the earth step forth into the unnatural darkness and reveal themselves in their own true light. Coolidge the President, Coolidge the "strong silent man," of the White House, Coolidge the Sphinx become a critic of fashion! It doubtless took all of that sophisticated air so carefully nurtured in Old Nassau to keep the jaws of the three Princeton men from gaping wide when President Coolidge objected to the cut and width of their trousers...
...University authorities have already begun a serious consideration of instructors eligible to succeed Professor Baker in his dramatic work at Harvard. Among those who have been mentioned for this post, it is reported, is Walter Prichard Eaton '00, a Harvard graduate, who has won fame as a dramatic critic...
...street-is obviously "bad grammar, bad morals." I chiefly object," said earnest Mrs. Stoner "to teaching children such nonsense because it misrepresents life. . . . It is not only criminal to do so but it helps to make criminals of children." Then, to show that she was not merely a destructive critic, Mrs. Stoner recited one of the numerous "jingle facts" that she has written in the hope of ousting Mother Goose...
...past it has been to me a source of extreme haemeotropiros to peruse the languid quaintness of your dramatic reviews, from which I invariably recover (than my lucky stars!) with a realization that the unfortunate play, or playwright, or manager, or both, have been surreptitiously pen-handled by the critic. But I forgive him--now, for I have discovered that only innocence or naivete has produced the effect of an apparently learned discussion of so learned a topic as the stock performance of a play only recently produced on Broadway by much superior talent, which play, after serious deliberations...
...revue. Hassard Short's Ritz Revue, featuring Charlotte Greenwood is all of that. The appearance of the chorus put us in a good humor. Somehow it lacked the air, so common to choruses, of having been aged in the wood. The girls were this year's stock. A brother critic who is wiser than ourself said they were "fresh". Apparently all of them could dance, and in the course of the show most of them did. Miss Hurlburt in particular deserves praise for her specialty dancing...