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...election results may in some cases seem foreordained or even meaningless. But this "routine" organization is important. It is only necessary to hark back two years to recall one slip between the cup and the lip, due to bad management. Then the Juniors counting the returns were at fault. But a hitch at any point is enough to disrupt and discredit he whole system of Senior Elections. The dissension, the damaged feelings; the howls of protest of two years ago should be sufficient reminder to each of the Committees concerned that theirs is a delicate task to be performed with...
...mildly picturesque stool pigeons and one, Comrade Vladimir Volfridovich Arnold, had been on two occasions a private in the U. S. Army, so he said. "I was born illegitimately and remain illegitimate and have acted like an illegitimate," cried Arnold in court, "but it is not my fault but the fault of Tsarist society, which, unlike the Bolsheviki, who do not recognize illegitimacy, never gave an illegitimate a chance of becoming a decent citizen...
...signed a marriage contract with Shefqut and became the legal husband of Fatima. It was an excellent marriage for him, then. Shefqut was rich and powerful and owned most of Southern Albania. Events immediately subsequent upon that marriage prevented Achmet's taking his bride. It was not his fault-then. There were revolutions. There was interference, armed, by foreign powers...
Sadly enough, it is Mr. Anderson who is at fault. Those who look upon him as the standard-bearer of poetic drama should be distressed, and justly so, by this, his latest work. Around the sordid scandal of Mayerling he has woven a dashingly domantic fliction, full of florid gestures, plots and counterplots, saved from melodramatic banality only by its insistence on the eternal antithesis between power and justice. The liberal Crown Prince Rudolph schemes to seize the throne from Franz-Joseph, his father, in order to relieve the oppressed people, but even as his coup d'etat succeeds...
This rather adverse comparison of the 1760's to our day should not be construed as a complaint against, or a fault of Jaue Austen's novel and its dramatization by Helen Jerome. In the light of its own day it is a very pleasant sentimental comedy, and, after all, we must judge it from that angle. The cast, though not phenomenal by any means, does a definitely satisfactory job. Robert Conness as the beefy-complexioned country gentleman, Mr. Bennet, handles his three twittering daughters and their erratic mother in the masterful fashion of a staid old Englishman. His wife...