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...cities are saturated with the literature of escape. Does an old maid or a Babbitt couple pine for romance, they can find it in The New York Journal, the cheap fiction magazines, or the novels of George Barr McCutcheon, Emerson Hough iand Rupert Hughes. Does a young man long for success and a "strong character," he can imagine he is acquiring these things from the American Magazine. Does a harassed and ineffectual "white collar slave" crave some denial of the harshness of existence, he has but to turn to the sermonettes and pepto-optimism concocted daily by Dr. Frank Crane...
...impersonate females go through what is probably the most unpleasant ordeal of their lives, it develops that J. McK. Kimball is a hotel clerk, and not so very good either. To his hotel come a nouveau riche family from the frequently-pulverized Middle West, accompanied by a "French maid". Let us explain the character: the exterior finish is by Vivaudou, Inc., the housing by Behrens (courtesy of Louis Silvers) but underneath is the one-hundred- per-cent, red-blooded, honest-to-God frame and speaking voice of H. N. Pratt '24, and our personal prediction is that if he doesn...
...Reiner. The mother did not tell her daughter of this, but with a strange anxiety turned the child's bent toward singing, determined to realize in her the graces of song of which the child had deprived her. One day, when the girl was half grown, an angry maid taunted her bitterly with having caused the ruin of her mother's voice. Still mother and daughter could not bring themselves to speak of the theme that had been hidden, and the woman died with the silence unbroken. The daughter became a singer, but did not follow her art for more...
...King; the rich and socially prominent "angel" and man of mystery, John Mitchell; the dark and debonnaire South American cave man, Guimares; the tragic mother, Mrs. Keenan; the crafty sleuths hot on the scent of the blackmailing murderer; the poor, humiliated wife in Palm Beach; or even the colored maid, Billie Bradford, discreet and loyal confidant of the white beauty and her "important" lover...
...cast of characters is as follows: Hotel Clerk, J. McK. Kimball '24 Byron Victory Dawes, D. A. Williams '23 Mrs. Dawes, B. S. Cogan '23 Cinderella Dawes, B. K. Little '23 Marie, a French Maid, H. N. Pratt '24 Richard Sterling, R. P. Bullard '24 Annette Pond, E. N. Carson '24 Homer Ezekiel Ipswich, J. M. Brown '23 Benjamin Franklin Jones, W. N. Gates...