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After all it can't be dreadfully exciting on the road to Mandalay--or even off of it. The flying fishes play very well, no doubt, but they offer no real intellectual stimulus, and the dawn coming up like thunder all the time must be as monotonously tactless as Wagnerian opera or the alarm-clock. Moreover there is China always across the bay, never any nearer, never any further, serene, immovable, Chinese...
...industrial lines. Prominent leaders told the public so often and so emphatically that prosperity was ahead that the public has began to believe it. Is this mass-delusion, not unassisted by judicious publicity and generous purchases in the stock market? Or is it the glimmering of a clear dawn as yet perceptible only to those located on high places? We shall all doubtless know the answer to this perplexing question some six or eight months from now, when the correct answer will have no prac tical value except to the moralist and the historian. On the other hand, there...
From that confused dawn full of hurrying footsteps and nervous whispering when Victoria learned that she was Britain's ruler until the Diamond Jubilee, the action of the play extends. Prime Ministers, Princes, famous men of three score years drift by in bright review. Chief among them is the Prince Consort, Albert. To play this part the Equity director rescued Ulrick Haupt from the obscurity of a German stock company in Chicago. Haupt expressed his gratitude by giving one of the most decisive and diverting performances of the season. Victoria is in the capable hands of Beryl Mercer, whose...
...celebrations in the Eternal City (TIME, Nov. 5) were most spectacular. Thousands of people were abroad as the first signs of dawn were visible on the eastern skies. Later, with the sun shining brightly on the beflagged capital of Italy, 8,000 black-shirted Fascisti marched the streets, Premier Mussolini at their head. It was the first anniversary of the historic and spectacular entry into Rome of the Fascisti...
...thousands of cafés. These cafés, opening early in the morning, make their profit by feeding the news agents and news vendors who come for their supply of Petit Parisiens. A corps of 15 super-inspectors and 60 district chiefs is on the move from dawn till sunset to keep the circulation booming in every quarter of Paris...