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...mark invariably does go down. It is no longer a measure of value but a medium of exchange. This inflation of the currency is a suicidal process; each day the government works the printing presses as fast as it can. The number of marks in circulation each evening is greater by billions that in the morning. But as these paper marks are turned out, their value is correspondingly depressed and at the end of the day, the total value of the German currency is less than at the start...
...Molnar's credit column cannot justly be starred with all the eulogy. The Charles Frohman Co. have created a perfect medium for the transference of his inventions. Translation, setting, costumes, direction are virtually without a flaw. Yet all of these would be valueless without the players...
...Especially poetic was her rendition of the Larghetic. Countless soprani have made us look for a different type of voice in the singer of Haendel to that of Mr. Schwarz. In the aria of Verdi and in "Wotans Abschied", however, his voice, a warm dramatic baritone, found its true medium of expression and the latter especially he sang with a fire and understanding truly excellent. It is to be regretted that the orchestra in accompanying him in this last played the Fire Music so poorly. It hurried through the music, cutting off the arpeggios as if it were too anxious...
...doing one good by lessening the numbers of the "Jack of all trades, master of non," this pressure of living has overreached itself in creating the vast number of the "master of one trade, Jack of none." Until a happy medium is struck between these two extremes in business requirements, the general education of the country will continue to have a commercial bent. And the blame for this must be put not on educators but on the hurry of life...
CASANOVA?Since his memoirs are banned by the book censors the great philanderer must, perforce, make his bow to America across the footlights. Lowell Sherman is his living medium; Katharine Cornell, his vision of delight...