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Also Mr. Eaton has had a play produced, an experience, I believe, that Professor Baker has never suffered. "Queen Victoria" was not a masterpiece, but that may have been the fault of his collaborator. A former New York newspaper reviewer, he knows the caprices of the managers, their loves and hatreds, their strengths and frailties, and so he should be able to instruct the authors when to be submissive, when to grapple. Producers have welcomed him to their entertainments, and they have put him out of them. Asked by a pupil where to take a play treating of the rougher...
...Premier Herriot, in a statement to the Chamber, declared that his Government was adamantly opposed to a policy of currency inflation: "It is not our fault that during this year the country will have to meet enormous bills. But whoever is to blame, and whatever the consequences of our decision, this Government is formally determined there shall be no inflation. However desperate may be the measure we may be forced to take, and even should personal interest be shaken, there will be no inflation. It is only in that way we can do our duty toward the future...
...last year, has a eleven team to send against the Crimson and one that succumbed last year only after two hard fought games. Whether it will be equal to the task of stopping the smooth passing Crimson sextet is a matter of conjecture, for in contrast the most noticeable fault of the Nassau skaters has been the failure to develop a line which coordinates...
...wasn't the Dean's fault, that much was certain. A tourist told the sexton and the sexton told the Dean and the Dean told the Chapter; somebody even told the King. Everybody shook their heads and said it could not be so, but when they went to look, there was the fact staring them in the face. The London Times got hold of the story, started a restoration fund that netted ?33,000 in three days. In Park Lane, in Mile End Road, in Billingsgate, in the counties, what a buzz. "Falling down . . . ," people said amazed. "Falling...
...seemed to him tasteless and tawdry in the external fashions of the Salvation Army [in England] . . ." Philosophically, Mr. Howells was a benevolent realist; economically, a Utopian. His humor was courtly; and though others have thought that it sometimes trailed off into tenuous banality, Mr. Firkins will not admit a fault here. He calls it "irony of the salon." The Howells whimsy was multiform and pervasive, given to grotesque impersonations and rollicking image-jugglery...