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Shaw then saw fit to explain significances. He composed a ponderous epilogue bringing the characters together in a dream which drifted down the centuries. They settled the merits of martyrdom and all but settled the play. Possibly Shaw preferred to have his audience leave the theatre with wrinkled brow rather than glistening eye. Possibly he deliberately stepped on his climax because he is Shaw and defies the rules...
Hurricane. "Of Petrova, by Petrova, and for Petrova" might be summoned as a phrase to explain this curiously tragical mixture. The handsome Olga wrote it last year and played it for the first time last week. It is obviously an "actory" part, conceived by one more cunning in stage interpretation than in stage creation. Yet through it runs an uneven strain of fierce vitality. For the moments when this strain is uppermost the play is valuable...
...reaction of Paddy Mullins, manager of the Negro, was instantaneous. Said he: "It's all right for Dempsey to explain how he intends to dispose of Harry, but explaining and actual demonstration are two different things." Paddy added that he had been "refilling his fountain pen for four years" hoping that Jack Kearns (manager to Dempsey) would come to terms...
...Baldwin '24, chairman of the drive, will explain the detailed plans for solicitation to the collectors, and Mr. R. T. Rich, chairman of the Fund for the Eastern District of the United States will discuss the methods used in applying relief in Europe. In addition, Professor M. O. Hudson L. '10 of the Law School, Professor Ralph Harlow '08 of Smith College, and Mr. J. Henry Scattergood of Philadelphia will speak. The president of the Student Council, F. A. O. Schwarz, will preside...
Nicholas Longworth recently became Republican Floor Leader of the House. The personality of his wife, Alice Roosevelt (who never pays calls) may not explain this event, but does explain a great deal about "Nick." Similarly, what secrets of the personality of Borah, the thunderer, are not suggested by the knowledge that he has a shy golden-haired wife, "Little Borah," and lives in an apartment with Chinese decorations and three canaries flitting at large...