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...JAZZ MANIA-There is a queen, a Balkan country of the type that figures very prominently on the map of Hollywood and not so much so anywhere else, a newspaper reporter who is a go-getter to the extent of going and getting the queen. She (the queen), is full of fun. She likes dancing considerably better than governing, and the heroic copy-hound less than either. Elements involved are tabloid revolutions, aeroplane fights, a New York cabaret, and continuous dancing, with or without provocation. The queen being Mae Murray, that is all very predictable and completely satisfying. BRASS-Philip...
...kind of writing that inspired Stevenson and Barrie, that makes up the sum of the best in literature, is an avocation in the true sense of the word. All of which is a cause for deep satisfaction that Harvard has as yet shown no symptoms of the vocational mania...
...Emperor Jones" is a short play--no audience could endure its intensity through three full acts. The program is filled out with a curtain-raiser, Susan Glaspell's "Suppressed Desires", a good-natured satire on the Freud-mania. It is full of humor, but on Tuesday night Boston's ponderous intellect was moved to laughter only twice
...consideration of the manner in which the European nations generally have jumped at the opportunity, particularly Russia, who is reported to have accepted even before the invitations to join in the conference reached her--all thoughtful persons are probably pleased that Mr. Harding is not similarly subject to conference-mania. He is wisely waiting until the public becomes accustomed to the idea of this latest proposal, and until a reaction, in the form of an expression of opinion, has come about...
...America's pet hobbies is "pledging". The average American gives little thought to signing a pledge, and so this process of extracting promises has become a much-abused one. The pledge-making a mania has not stopped with the Boy Scouts and the Sunday school but has found its way into prospective legislation in the form of a bill now before the New York Assembly which proposes that public school teachers be required to take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution. The purpose of the bill is to eliminate communistic and other extreme propaganda threatening our present system...