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...Blue Paradise" is not clever enough to stand on its own legs. It needs the support of able men and beautiful women, neither of which are to be seen in abundance in this production. Mr. Cecil Lean, to whom is intrusted the lead, is a very good funny man, but his "line" is not one of the newest, and suffering as he is from a cold, his personality does not impress one as especially magnetic. Boston weather may be handed the blame for this man's indisposition, and his cheerfulness and willingness to try almost made...
...defenders of the wall, meanwhile, amused themselves by dropping heavy stones on the beams of the lean-to shelter or by pouring down boiling...
...great Christmas carnival is held for the benefit of the Allied peoples but is not designed only for those whose sympathies lean to the cause of France, Great Britain, Belgium, Italy, Russia and the other members of the Entente. The exhibit will attract those who are strictly neutral in their feelings and also those who favor the ultimate supremacy of the Central Powers. There will be exhibits never before shown in this country, articles of great and small value for sale and entertainment by the world's greatest artists...
...deficit this year is nearly $4,000. This is not as large as some past deficits, but it is altogether too large if the Union is to continue to operate on a business basis. Its endowment is sure to become exhausted before many such lean years elapse, and then it will have to shut up shop, or undertake the difficult and unpleasant task of raising a new endowment...
Here is a number of the Monthly to make the heart of an ex-editor glad, not only because the number provides interesting entertainment, but because it is so joyously youthful and so youthfully sincere. The spirit that founded the Monthly, and through lean and fat years kept it true to its old gods, is in these pages--the love of literature and life; of beauty, of humanity, of song; of quiet nature and of outlandish romance; of all those things, in fact, which a man, when he is but just become a man, yields to as he never will...