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...listless while Playwright Mayer's dialog is getting up momentum. Waterloo Bridge. Close by Waterloo railway station in London is a bridge upon whose parapet are posted sooty little strumpets waiting for soldiers returning home on leave. A German air raid sends them scurrying to their rooms and Myra, chubby and scarlet-shirtwaisted, goes with: a slim fellow who proves to be incredibly cherubic for one who has served with the Canadian expeditionary forces. He used to be a Y.M.C.A. man. Not only does he fail to recognize Myra's profession, but he is not even intuitively wary...
...about this point you begin to feel sure that Myra will desert her lover rather than pollute him, that he will ultimately learn the truth and ignore it, that she will then promise to be a good girl until he returns from the wars with a marriage license. The playwright who has done nothing to disturb these expectations is Robert Emmet Sherwood, usually devoted not to emotional ferments but to the risabilities (The Road to Rome, The Queen's Husband). The very modest measure of success that he achieves with this sentimentally serious play is largely due to June...
...these, a subaltern, loved Lois- genuinely; but not pugnaciously enough to defy her aunt's disapproval: he had neither riches nor pride of family, his relatives lived vaguely in Surrey, and that, thought Aunt Myra, would never do. Lois, for her part, loved, but did not bestir herself to contradict her aunt. When a few days later the subaltern, on patrol, was shot from ambush, Aunt Myra thought it sad, and continued her teas. Lois pondered, to no avail, and went abroad to get on with her French. But that was their last bland September; by the next, revolutionary...
Negaunee, Mich.; Emporia, Kan.; Pal myra, N. Y. ; Houston, Ark.; Commerce, Mo.; Pewee Valley, Ky. ; Waxahachie and Jacksonville, Tex.; Belfast, Me.; Oelwein, Iowa; Virginia Beach, Va., were other places whence the new Carnegie heroes hailed. Besides Hero Smith's silver medal, 23 bronze medals were awarded, ten of them posthumously, for rescue or attempts at rescue from drowning, burning and onrushing trains. Hero Bert V. McMinn of Jacksonville, Tex., extracted his man from a caved-in well...
...situation is back again on a par with painting. Women have given birth to no great music. There have been no Beethovens among them, no Bachs, no Wagners. There have been no conductors of importance, no Toscaninis, no Stokowskis, no Mucks. Olga Samaroff, Guiomar Noväes, Gitta Gradova, Myra Hess, Yolanda Merp are capable pianists, but then so is Ignace Jan Paderewski. The list might...