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Rechecking its facts on the rarefied subjects of Krishnamurti and Theosophy, TIME finds: 1) As to the arcane matter of his divinity. World Teacher Krishnamurti was recently reported saying: "I may or may not be the second Christ-I don't know. . . . Most people are dumb anyway. I don't try to convert them. I only try to wake them up so they can find out what life is really all about." 2) Jiddu Krishnamurti has yet to make a clean break with the fluid tenets of the Theosophical Society which, founded in Manhattan...
...could enter at will into the thoughts and feelings of a wide range of human beings in a multitude of experiences and under circumstances of infinite variety, and then he could make them speak, not as they would have spoken in real life,--for most of us are dumb or tongue-tied, particularly when we have anything to say. . . . In addition he had the gift of poetry--define it if you can. And, to close the account, he had learned the trade or art or craft of bringing plays to pass, or, in other words, of representing life and thought...
...each of these inquiries the properly titivating answer. If Co-Respondent Unknown survives 100 nights, its run will be another tribute to the capable emotional stripteasing by which Actress Conklin kept The Pursuit of Happiness alive for 250 performances. Before Miss Conklin had perfected her technique of being winsome, dumb and sexy all at the same time, she hoofed obscurely in the choruses of several musicals, played in half a dozen inferior legitimate shows without exciting much remark. She was born 26 years ago in Dobbs Ferry. N. Y. Last summer she married a Wall Streeter named James Daniel Thompson...
...much more eloquent than if he were to speak in words! For with his cane, his derby, and his short moustache, with his wan smile, his angelic grin, his simpering indignation, and his dandy waddle, Charlie can discuss anything but metaphysics. When an ugly cop lowers a him his dumb show cries out, "All right, all right, officer, you needn't use force...
...Manhattan at a banquet of the Better Light-Better Sight Movement, attended by tycoons of utilities nearly all of which are at war with the Government, President Thomas N. McCarter of Public Service Corp. of New Jersey proposed a toast: "To the President of the United States!" Struck dumb, a few men got sheepishly to their feet, grinning. Somebody tittered. Then with a roar of laughter the audience stood and drank. "We are meeting here on a salubrious occasion," said Mr. McCarter soberly. "We are an industry with no troubles of any kind. The only thing we have to worry...