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Maurice de Feraudy. In Les Affaires Sont les Affaires (Business is Business), this distinguished veteran of the Comedie Française calls himself "the tiger cat." But he hardly spits. His sense of humor is so overflowing that in the scenes where he should be yowling he is purring. In all his varied repertoire he seems certain that what this sad old world needs most is comedy. He prefers to exchange drama for a wink...
...Grave and stately in appearance," says the "Nation," "Dr. Eliot is not in reality an austere man. Even a slight intimacy reveals geniality, kindness, and humor; but his inability to trifle with the truth, his scorn of insincerity and affectation, and his courageous frankness of utterance sometimes frighten the timid. His spoken and written style is a faithful expression of his character. It is a style without applied ornament, without excess of kind, the utterance of a just and valiant man. Though strong-willed and self-assured, he sought to make his policies prevail not by the exercise of autocratic...
Yesterday afternoon furnished much humor. Several alleged that the punt, which seats ten men on a side and has a runway down its length, resembles nothing so much as an old Roman galley. What with a coach, a manager, and a moving picture photographer pacing between the oarsmen, all that would have been needed to complete the picture of a classic galley would have been to chain the men to their seats and supply the coach with a whip...
When a stock company attempts to produce a play which has been a failure in New York and succeeds as well as the players at the St. James Theatre do with "The Faithful Heart", it deserves congratulations. Given a play which contains too little humor for the amount of sentiment, this company makes the emotional scenes bearable by developing the eccentric characterization to a high degree...
Artistic ability and humor are the important qualities for arts and cuts candidates. Assignments will be given and will form a basis on which the merits of the various competitions will be judged...