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...sunlit sea of pleasantness, rippled by waves of wit and wafted fitfully over the audience. Unhappily, the waters of this wave are rather flat and dead. There is no swirl of red romance; there is no salt sting of savory satire. The play is just a trifle too harmless to be regarded seriously as amusement...
...bunch" deep in the psychology of poker. Here is a youth burning the midnight electric light over Plato--in the Loeb Classical Library. There is "a little group of serious thinkers," hot for communism. In a few years they will be selling boots and shoes, or something equally as harmless...
Alice Calhoun is the girl and makes the unfortunate error of too precise and obvious make-up for a simple, pioneer primrose. But the men are men and the openness of the scenic spaces is only exceeded by their width. Such productions are harmless to all; entertaining to millions...
...steeped in spirits of wine, he is very well known; acting within the domain of his instincts, he is hardly known at all." That, in parvo, was Fabre's technique- "personal interviews" with his minute subjects. The Languedoeian scorpion (not the common black scorpion of Europe, which is harmless) is a grotesque, straw-colored beast, 3½ inches long, with bony armor and a hard, sharp, poison-tipped tail. Only a Fabre could be intimate with him. He digs his own home in the sand under rocks. He feels his way with his pincers, because, despite his eight staring...
Perhaps Mr. Stokes is a deep-dyed villain. At any rate it has not been settled in court of law. But this paper, the Daily News (Manhattan) pillories him before the public eye, championing the cause of Mrs. Stokes. It made even Mr. Stokes' comparatively innocent appearance? a harmless if not a handsome face? the subject of an almost libelous cartoon. And verbally it piled on mud to the dimensions of a plaster cast...