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Olympia is a dinner-table anecdote about pre-War Austrian intrigue. Though flecked with Molnar's second-best jokes and informed with the proper politesse, Olympia would have been very dull without Actress Crews who smoked a cigar and sometimes made it sparkle while her daughter was being seduced...
Medicine knows no full picture of senescence. It knows many details?what diseases are peculiar to the age, how young ailments cause old crotchets, how various body parts wear out, how the mind grows dull. Little more detail did the New York conference bring out. Of a score papers only three or four dealt with the hygiene of old age. Practically all the others dealt with specific diseases. Yet the meeting was useful in collecting scattered knowledge and in focusing medical attention...
...observe that Lee Simonson's settings, in which a pointed arch at the back of the stage became a frame for pictures of the sky or country, and Wolfgang Zeller's curious songs, were far superior to the play itself. Possibly this was due to the dull fervors of translation; but the only epigram which Mephistopheles achieved, though he was forever trying, was this: "He died like a good Christian for he had much to repent...
...bring tae its readers by the "gaping" in that literary gem. I was born and brocht up ("raised" we say oot here) among the Ayrshire yokels, an' I dinna min' seein' them gap much, except when they might be tryin' tae read a newsmagazine as dull as TIME. No that ony siccan drivel was produced in Ayrshire, but there bein' nae censorship on dullness, some yawn-provokers frae the ootside at times got on tae the newsstaunds, an' were whyles bocht by chaps that werena "on" tae their contents...
...Symphony season began in Boston last week with Boston's best in attendance and Serge Koussevitzky conducting. Lest those factors-alone should breed complacency, the management complained in its program book of an estimated deficit of $134,000, blamed increased salaries, begged aid. Had the concert been dull more would have spent the time mulling over the appeal, considering their own budgets. But Conductor Koussevitzky kept them preoccupied...