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...help the President keep the United States out of war." To Britons this had an ominous ring. Whatever he has said in public, Joe Kennedy's private disposition has long been well known: for several years he has believed that the world was going to hell at a very early date. He believed in the Munich appeasement because he feared that England was doomed if she fought in 1938. His feeling has never changed-as his Boston interview (later repudiated) showed last month. So far the world has never fallen on the date Joe Kennedy set, but some...
Fledgling (by Eleanor Carroll Chilton & Philip Lewis, produced by Otis Chatfield-Taylor). One of the hardest things in the drama is to make the fires of a purely interior, mental hell apparent to an audience. Usually only the greatest playwrights, the Ibsens and Chekhovs, can do it. Fledgling, adapted from Authoress Chilton's novel Follow the Furies, does it, though it is hardly a great play. It also does other, much less admirable things-confuses its central tragedy with subplots and religious argument in the manner of old-fashioned "problem plays." But the hell remains visible, registers hard...
...half of nerve-wrecking clamor, of intolerable clattering and clashing of knives and forks and plates, of shrieking and shouting commonplaces at one's elbow-mates . . . and when there is a band-and there usually is-the pandemonium is complete, and there is nothing to approach it but hell on a Sunday night." He begins to remember imagined slights. He had met the young Boer War correspondent, Winston Churchill, could not get a word in edgewise. Did you have a good time? somebody asked him. Said Twain glumly: "I have had a smoke...
...Flossie, 2. They live in Manhattan, on 104th Street, and the year is 1901. Joe has quit his job (he is a printer) and is trying against stiff, not to say dirty, opposition to set up in business for himself. He lacks the proper piratical zest; but Gurlie is hell-bent to get him-and herself-In the Money. In the long run he succeeds, they get a house in the suburbs. Meanwhile Gurlie has snubbed her neighbors and fought bitterly with her mother; Joe has had a personal interview with President Theodore Roosevelt and has not been impressed; Flossie...
...York's Hell Gate, between The Bronx and Queens, lies a British frigate wrecked about 1780 with a reputed $4,800,000 in gold aboard. Among its hunters: Simon Lake, inventor of the submarine...