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Recent close association with the efforts of famous men had somewhat addled his brain. He did not realize that clocks do not run backwards smoothly. And so his glorious historical pageant merely peeps groggily from behind the swinging pendulum. We catch a fleeting glimpse of Arthur's nightshirt and Cyrano's nose, but they are distorted to no effect. Yet Lampy slumbers on. He snores. He wheezes. The shades of the past present themselves in a villianous, not to say poisonous, gallimafray...
...Barker was written by Kenyon Nicholson, young Columbia University professor of dramatic art. Paradoxically, it falls short of technical efficiency the while it achieves a glorious fullness of unacademic atmosphere, characterization and emotional conflict. In the play, all the tent-show folk-hula dancer, snake-charmer, clown, odd-job men - accept with varying humors their haphazard, futile nom-adism-all except the barker, "Nifty" Miller, soul and essence of the entire raucous flimflam. He, chained like the others to the aimless tent life, holds fast to the idea that his only son will one day be a wealthy, respectable lawyer...
...Comrades, I cannot imagine that there is in the whole world a woman capable of refusing to dance with a Turkish officer. Your profession is the most glorious and the most honorable. The whole country counts on you. So, I repeat, I cannot imagine that there is a woman capable of refusing to dance with a Turkish officer. Now I order them to dance. Go on the floor. Dance...
...Author. It is 28 years since The Gentleman from Indiana was published. Newton Booth Tarkington was then a young Princeton graduate living in Indianapolis. He is still living in Indianapolis, on a street with the glorious name of Meridian, and never was Princeton more conscious of him as her leading literatus. His position in national letters is analogous to what Princeton feels. The Henry van Dykes, ever revered, belong to an age gone by. The Scott Fitzgeralds, ever provocative, may belong to an age to come. The Tarkingtons, craftsmen and satirists whose conscience and good manners are not disturbed...
...Signor Mussolini relaxed. Rising he cried: "Citizens, I shall create no new provinces until 1932. But do not despair! . . . When that time comes, I shall reward those regions which have shown themselves the most laborious, best disciplined and most prolific. . . . Citizens! Return to Caltagirone and achieve these three glorious goals...