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...Right to Dream. What was generally hailed by reviewers as the worst play put on in Manhattan this season sidled in last week. It did not even have the merit of being so atrociously bad that it was funny. It was just dull, inept, feeble, groping, obfuscated. That is all. Author I. K. Davis starts out with an intrinsically interesting premise- a protest against the workaday world that would force a man to the accumulation of money, thus smothering the spark of divine genius. In his play, the young man to whom he attributes genius shows not a flicker...
...then to trust to the sense of justice of the world to see that right is done in the end." House of Commons. The Conservative Party's motion (TIME, May 12) condemning the abolition of the McKenna duties was defeated by 317 to 252 votes. The debate was dull- except for the use of the prohibited word "lie" by Captain Terrel, Conservative, which brought him into conflict with the Speaker. Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden also stirred the House by an unusually "acrid and ironical" speech. ¶ The Labor bill for the nationalization of the mines was defeated...
...Grand Central Galleries gave a reception to the authors and their guests?and here were Blashfield and Violet Oakley, Grace George and Julia Arthur, and again all the literary folk. President Coolidge. telegraphed cordially?and it was all very significant and, like most significant things, a trifle dull. Significant, too, the absence of the "smart" New York so-called literary crowd. They, apparently, are not willing to be bored. Parlor tricks are more important to them than the honest and frankly sentimental message from John Galsworthy. I mark this as a sign of their ephemeral quality. I grant them that...
...piece was generally regarded as audacious but dull; its treatment hardly living up to the provocative possibilities of its background. The play acted much better than it read when published recently in the American Mercury, but it maundered gloomily through scenes wherein a Negro of no great ability married a white girl, then discovered that he was so far above her in mental calibre that it hurt. His aspirations to ward a lawyer's career came between them, and in the end he renounced them to devote himself to caring for her ? whereupon she kissed his hands-Robeson...
...singles match he "toyed" with Harold Throckmorton, 6-1, 6-2. When things grew dull, or when Throckmorton strove a little too valiantly, Tilden let loose a few fast ones that made Jove and his thunder look like a slow-ball pitcher...