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...quite sure whether the play had been successful in its attempt to understand them, they wrote scornful words which the box-office at least could not fail to find intelligible. Others, undeceived by the play's pretenses, by its dreary smut, by its fairly frequent lapses into complete and trite absurdity, by long stretches in which author e. e. cummings had obviously fallen into the immature fallacy of trying to tell all about Life in a single paragraph, found partially concealed in its three spasmodic acts many specimens of acute and mordant understanding as well as a fair quantity...
What must have been the feelings of George Arliss, famed actor in The Green Goddess, Old English, The Merchant of Venice, frequent benefactor of needy actors, and councilor of the Actors' Equity Association when he read last week two communications addressed to the last named organization and signed by 60 actors and actresses. The purport of these epistles was rudely apparent; the 60 actors and actresses wished Mr. Arliss, long one of the major ornaments of the U. S. stage, to be excluded from holding office in Equity because he is a citizen of Great Britain...
...position as impersonal as an historian's account of the battle of Crécy, Author Jacks describes his War experiences. "Major Thompson dismounted and walked back and forth among the cannon. ... He replied that the shot was not made that would kill him. ..." Scenes of hideousness are frequent, gallantry omnipresent. A cool sense of the pictorial dominates a style metaphorically fine (if you think airplanes "steam by"). Non-belligerents will enjoy an atmosphere of accuracy (if you think English soldiers wear "mufti"). The suggestion of continual pageantry runs pleasantly throughout the book-a relief from recent War stories...
...decidedly, truth is stranger than fiction. So much stranger in fact that were it not for the author's reputation and his frequent reference to police records and newspaper files we should set down his tales not as truth, but fiction...
Soon after President Harding was inaugurated, Sinclair was a frequent visitor in Washington, D. C. He knew Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean, sportsman-publisher of the Washington Post, and Harry Micajah Daugherty, the U. S. Attorney-General. He cultivated Albert-Bacon Fall, whom he had known only casually as a Senator from New Mexico, but who now, in 1921, was Secretary of the Interior. Sinclair began to be invited to stay at the White House...