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OTHELLO-Shakespeare survives a rather heavy and over-subtitled picturization-with a fine, if uncalled for, mob scene, and some excellent acting by Emil Jannings as the Moor...
...fortunes above a certain figure be confiscated for the benefit of the Government; and the English Government is greatly in need of assistance, because of bonuces to the unemployed, providing homes for the homeless, and subsidies for reducing the price of food. The old way was for a mob to appear in front of a rich man's house, set it on fire, and shoot him as he ran out. Then the rioters looted the place, and carried off such of the rich man's property as was not hurned. The new way known as Constructive Thought is very much...
...English gentlemen of the road feed off the fat of the land: they have arrived at a state of well being almost as ideal as that of the Roman mob in the period of Corn laws and competitions in Praetorian generosity. They are given their regular doles of food, and everything is done to make their lives carefree and easy. Now and then the terrible spectre of road-building, railway construction, or shipment to Australia, where good wholesome work is free and plentiful, makes a shadow in their dreams. But so far the bug-a-boo has done nothing more...
...facts, as Shakespeare did. Nothing need be said about that long line of Hamlets of the century after Garrick. People went to the theatre for the joy of it. No clever criticism wrinkled the brow, and no tongue was stuck in the cheek over any performance. A jovial mob lounged in the theatre and awaited the actors. If they liked the play they broke out a clapping and a-yelling; if they did not like it they let fly any bric-a-brac that came to hand,--and the unfortunate tragedians did not have to consult the papers to learn...
...handiwork of the American mob spirit is the same in New York as it is in Boston, Chicago, or San Francisco. What happened yesterday at the Polo Grounds has had its parallel in occasional demonstrations in the Harvard Stadium against the home team. If manners make the man, our crowds have still much to learn. In the last analysis the level of sportsmanship depends as much upon the temper and ideals of the sporting public as it does upon the standards of the players themselves, whether professionals or amateurs. What wonder that the pages of professional baseball are sometimes marred...