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Maxine Elliott's 39th W. of Broadway--Ethel Barrymore in the Constant Wife is worth seeing if you've never seen Ethel. The play is not so good. Its whole element is clever, tricky lines that are none too clever or tricky...
...hopes of the more liberal element of the Church for such a rapprochement were feelingly expressed to newsgatherers last week by Cardinal Vannutelli, on the eve of his 90th birthday, in earnest quavering speech: "Mussolini is the man chosen by God to direct Italy to her glorious goal. I pray for him daily. . . . Negotiations for the reconciliation of the Church and State are making gratifying headway, and we are confident that a settlement may be reached on a basis of justice to the Holy See." Such well-meant words are little more than wasted breath so long as the potent...
Against the thirteenth century portal of Freiburg Cathedral in a building of the Germany of just before the war, the Dramatic Club has presented a twelfth century miracle play in a manner which suggests more the period of the building than the period of any of the other elements involved. A miracle play, like all that is ritual or desended or ritual, is a variation on a theme; and in the recurrent miracle plays the text has formed but a very small element of the orchestration. In this play the text is less interesting than in some that have preceded...
...very late date to begin vocational training and it is hard to see why, if a European young man or woman can begin their professional and technical, education at 18 a young American couldn't at 20. If this were done and the larger and more juvenile element thereby removed, in all probability a far more serious spirit and attitude would pervade the young men and women of the Junior and Senior classes. Those classes could then be organized in preparation for the research work of the graduate courses. One of the reasons why graduate students in an American university...
...partly because John Hopkins in the East and Leland Stanford in the West have announced that they are going to adopt it and I think their example will be followed. But I have also brought it to your attention because I think it is one way of introducing the element of seriousness into American education which will cause. American students to give more attention to the great problems of political, social and religious life which confront us today. For any careful observer must admit that there is taking place before our very eyes a disintegration of standards which must give...