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...your article must have pained him. The creation of a colossal St. Francis was one of his great dreams. But he sacrificed too much for it, gave it the significance the world demanded for his wife and child. Although it should be very beautiful, it was foredoomed to the fate of all false gods...
...battling the Japanese in person at the head of a Chinese division. With that proclamation properly published, Young Chang took off from Peiping in his luxurious trimotored plane for the safety of the Shanghai International Settlement. From there he proposed to sail at once for Europe-oblivious to the fate of 150,000 Chinese soldiers whom he left stranded in Jehol and the Peiping area. The official flourish of abdication (for it amounted to that) was made in high Chinese style by the Young Marshal, thus...
Author Sayre's Rackety Rax got a good press and went to Hollywood; Hizzoner the Mayor deserves an even better fate. Riotously jovial satire, it sets ringing no tocsin of reform but the welkin echoes its topical tintinnabulations. Aside from and under its uproarious humor, Hizzoner the Mayor has grimmer implications that need underlining nowadays for few U. S. citizens. In the perennial Augean task of turning the rascals out, such hearty slapstick broom-thwacks as Author Sayre's may be as effective in the long run as all the Herculean street-cleaning apparatus of a Judge Seabury...
Miss Lulu Bett comes out all right in the end. As the play goes rollicking along, one wonders just what that demon Fate has in store for her, but she forgives and they all live happily ever after. Miss Lulu Bett is the heroine, if such there are in this modern age, of an amusing comedy being shown this week at the Peabody Playhouse, with the Stagers in charge of festivities. The play is taken from a novel of the same name by Zona Gale...
Excerpts: "In the year of my advent upon these scenes, the annus mirabilis 1880, they took but $78,094,687 for flogging the elements into 15,065,767 pupils, which worked out to but little more than $5 per capita per annum. ... In 1914. the year of fate, there were 26,002,153 boys and girls in the schools, and making them fit for democracy cost $555,077,146 . . . four times as much as in 1880. . . . But then the pedagogues began to fall upon the taxpayer in real earnest, and presently they had him down and were turning his pockets...