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Although no definite solution has been reached as to the source of the fire, four theories were suggested by the firemen. The first, that of a defective electric light wire, was investigated, but but quickly rejected. A far more likely explanation lays the cause of the fire to a nest, built by either birds or mice, in which a match might have been used in the process of construction and then accidently ignited. Another fireman suggested that the workmen who had been repairing the southern side of the roof the evening before might have carelessly dropped a match...
POEMS-Katharine Mansfield-Knopf ($2.50). A collection of poems by the author of Bliss and The Dove's Nest (TIME, Sept. 10). They do not compare with her stories. In fact, the best that can be said for them is that a few -Sleeping Together, To L. H. B.- rise above the average, and that anything done by Katherine Mansfield is likely to be at least graceful...
Educated at the City College, Meyer is to be a lawyer. He shuns the Ludlow Street Gang, which has grown and taken on a definite character. "A nest of thieves." But its members were such stuff as clients are made of and he maintains friendly relations, keeps in touch with their secrets, though seldom seen by them. Boolkie, gang leader, "said it will be a great thing for the gang to have its own mouthpiece...
...Holy Grail appears as the pivot of the play. It turns up in the dirty East Side nest of a gang of crooks. One crook steals it from another. Unfortunately for him the smarter swindler's girl who is deeply religious learns through her priest the identity of the vessel The conflict between them, falling slightly at a rather conventional climax, provides the drama...
...golden eggs, but doesn't, is less susceptible of deft solution. The railways are a whole flock of such geese. During the War they were seized and peremptorily ordered to lay twice a day. They could have as much food as they desired, but they might not leave the nest. And when the War was passed, this regimen had seriously impaired both the morale and the constitutions of the geese. The geese and the gooseherds cried for normalcy...