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George M. Cohan, fond of Irish names, has brought forth another, The Rise of Rose O'Reilly, soon to immigrate into Manhattan...
...with Booth Tarkington Julian (Leonard) Street left Manhattan and went to live in Princeton, where his young son attends college. He does not miss the clatter of town, he says. He enjoys being away from dinners and teas. He is fond of the undergraduate viewpoint. He finds that he can work better in comparatively rural surroundings. But, after all, Princeton is not inaccessible to the lights of Times Square, and last week Mr. Street came on to New York City to assist in the final cutting and revision of the cinema version of his novel, Eita Coventry, which William...
...Centralization" is one of those modern catch-words which drive men mad. It has indeed become more than a word, for as a fact it has spread everywhere. In journalism, however, one still looks for individualism and unhampered expression of opinion. Such fond fancies received a rude shock in England recently by the sale of the Hulton newspapers. These, numbering seven in all and published in London and Manchester, passed into the hands of Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook. The former is a brother of the late Lord Northcliffe and is said to have been mainly responsible for the latter...
...Cohan; but still, the blurb of the detective which lets the audience, and the actors, know how much he loves humanity seems terribly over-done. It is a trifle sickening for a two-fisted, hardboiled, graft-hunting. Irish detective to fall without warning to the estate of fond "deus ex." Mr. Morehouse would have had it over sooner if he had known his part better. But the prompter's voice can rarely be entirely dispensed with on stock company's first nights...
...reappeared, as beautiful as ever but much more unhappy, for the bepimpled Todd had been removed, of necessity, to a nearby private sanatorium?and Inez would not desert him, having taken him for better or worse. The old magic closed around Jeffrey like a net of silk. He was fond of Joan? but Inez was, and had been, every- thing he cried for. Yet he could not bear to hurt Joan?and it was only after weeks of unhappiness that he mastered himself at last. Then, at the moment of crisis, he realized that Inez had only been an impulse...