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Finally, the selection is a tribute to Mr. Crowley himself. He began as an employee of the Central at 25; for about ten years he was a train master; at 36 he became a division superintendent; at 40, assistant general superintendant to the road, and at 43 its General Manager. Subsequently his title has been changed to Assistant Vice President and then Vice President, but his job has been as chief operating executive of the road with the duty of maintaining its equipment and its line of 17,000 miles. Next August Mr. Crowley will...
...with the most fertile invention posted prompters under tables, behind rocks or ancient oaks, so that the elusive word might be whispered to him as he moved in well disguised anguish from cache to cache,-a curious floating method not unlike that of ectoplasm"; lovable, whimsical Barrie, the little master of Thrums, of whom the story is told that once, wandering over to Bernard Shaw's table in the coffee room of his club and seeing the remarkable mess upon which Shaw was browsing, he asked in an alarmed and Scottish whisper: "Oh tell me, Shaw...
...producers, after having bought the play for its previous standing and exploitation value, changed the name. The only explanation is that paradoxical titles are now in vogue on the screen, following the example of Playwright Shipman on the stage. Shipman might have written this cinema of the master thief's daughter who met the wealthy young man she was to rob, and turned from grand larceny to the grand passion. It is a machine-made picture, and Dorothy Dalton as Leah is only an effigy pulled around by a director...
...Poet Laureate of England recently arrived in Manhattan, refused to be interviewed, refused to express any opinion at all of America, refused to give his address in Manhattan. This, of course, was not playing the game which so many Britishers have overplayed. The Victorian poet, beloved of Masefield, master technician, comes to grace the campus of Ann Arbor as visiting lecturer, patron saint, what you will; a post which was previously occupied by our own poet, Robert Frost. It has 'been rumored that at Oxford, near which he lives, the elderly poet finds time and takes pleasure...
...wish to endanger their souls with teleology will find authentic material in "Confusion,". And the casual reader, who finds pleasure if not purpose in the records of life, will find in "Confusion" a breadth of canvas, a freshness of color, and a human interest worthy of an older master...