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...world--for it has been recognized by the United States Government as an art of international importance. Mr. Glover, the Third Assistant Postmaster General, is even now en route to England with an official exhibit of the various issues which this country has printed. He will enter this display, arranged in the form of a gigantic shield, in the International Stamp Exhibition at the Royal Horticultural Hall, London; and it is expected that the American shield will surpass the exhibit of any other nation in beauty and value. President Harding himself has described it as "an exhibit worthy...
...Significance. The Orissers deals with the duality of man's nature -with the subsconscious conflict, continually active, between what people imagine themselves to be and what they really are. The author is a psychologist and attempts throughout to display the genuine impulses and personalities of his characters with as little rancor or partiality as possible...
...they would be neither so polite nor so gay. At any rate, in most American drama, the French male character who is old enough to have a crêpe-beard has, in general, the choice between just two roles. He is always noble, and if he does not display his noblesse oblige by pursuing the chaste young heroine around and around the room with the scarlet curtains, he devotes himself to lamenting the vanished glories of his ancestral chateau...
...figures of the delegates from Moscow at the end of the second act, and the Tsar and Tsarina, with the beggars at one side, at the end of the fifth act. And mention must be made of the costumes. Rarely has a play been set with the beauty and display of brilliance that one sees here. In fact, if the Moscow players can extract so much from a play of the type of Tolstoy's "Tsar Fyodor", and can hold an audience enthralled that does not understand the language, one looks forward eagerly to their playing of "The Lower Depths...
Among the features of the display, which will be made under the direction of Mr. H. C. Block, will be advance information on new books, talks on the modern novelists, and the secrets of good book making. Professor W. L. Phelps, commenting on a similar exhibition held at Yale recently, said, "I am very glad that Mr. Block is exhibiting this afternoon some of Alfred Knopf's publications. Mr. Knopf is one of the most enterprising of modern publishers, and many of his books are interesting and valuable. The manuscripts and rare books are very fascinating and Mr. Block...