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...company as a whole. In the crowded stage scenes each actor seems to be part of a subtly arranged picture, without any consciousness of posing to form a picture. There is no mere attitudinizing for effect. Hands, arms and legs, the curve of the bodies seem to flow naturally from position to position, working out on the stage fine effects of composition, corresponding to the mood of the play at the moment. From grouping to grouping the actors move, and yet one never feels that here one definite grouping is over and here the next one beings. There...

Author: By J. A. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/9/1923 | See Source »

...laxness due to over-hurriedness in examination, and a great deal of smuggling. It is stated that ninety-five per cent of those admitted either temporarily or under bond in the past have forfeited their bonds and stayed here. Last year, when there was an extra large flow of immigration, the medical examinations numbered approximately eight to the minute. It is small wonder that the most undesirable specimens got by. During 1922 in the neighborhood of 10,000 immigrants were smuggled in. When it is remembered that barely half of the people in the United States belong to the prevailing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUBBLE, BUBBLE! | 4/4/1923 | See Source »

Instead of acceptances, protests began to flow in. The authors of the invitation insisted that it was " only a joke " and not intended to be taken seriously, but the entertainment was cancelled and Justice Sutherland missed a dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Joke | 3/31/1923 | See Source »

...bills over the veto of Governor Silzer, a storm tore off a section of the State House roof and blew in the plate glass windows of the Senate gallery. Governor Silzer's only comment on the last work of the legislators was: "Praise God from whom all blessings flow. If they stayed they could not do any more good, and if they leave they cannot do any more harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE STATES | 3/31/1923 | See Source »

ALASKA: Test oil wells are being bored. From one of them a column of soft blue clay flows, filling the six-inch pipe and rising to a height of five feet before tipping over. The rate of the clay flow varies with atmospheric pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE STATES | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

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