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...bottle. The spectacle of his ''good and gentle-souled father" drinking himself to death made Sinclair a life-long Prohibitionist. Nor does he use tea, coffee, tobacco. He came by his radicalism early. Writes Author Sinclair in his autobiographical American Outpost: "Floyd Dell . . . asked me to explain the appearance of a social rebel in a conventional Southern family. I thought the problem over, and reported my psychology...
...Edward Bromberg, another leading member of the cast, then entered the discussion, and went on to explain that the group intended to produce if possible only plays involving social complications. Following "Men in White" come "Success Story" by John Lawson, and "Gold Eagle Guy" by Melvin Levy which has never been produced before...
...Hart; Sam Harris, producer). "What are you having?" a young man at Richard Niles's party asks Julia Glenn (Mary Philips) in the first scene of this play. Too bored to hand him her glass, she says: "I'm having not much fun." The acts that follow explain why not only Julia Glenn but Richard Niles (Kenneth MacKenna),the successful playwright who is her host; Althea Royce (Jessie Royce Landis), the aging actress who is his wife, and most of the other members of the large cast fail to enjoy themselves...
Doubtless the University official who has the job of seeing that there is a classroom for every class is occasionally hard-put to find space for a group of eager students "to grow in wisdom." Only thus can one explain Government 8 meeting in the Biology Lab. But shades of Der Fuehrer! this has gone too far. A German A section meets in the Semitic Museum...
...because I feel that this view is so widespread that I humbly offer this book as an attempt to explain and justify the Roosevelt experiment, and to show how, if steadfastly pursued, it is bound to reach a successful conclusion...