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"Episodes such as those which have marked the course of stock prices and so-called Wall Street sentiment . . . constitute a generally harmful nuisance. They also constitute a reflection on the steadfastness and sobriety of a portion of the community. . . . The only circumstances under which, in a country with the resources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Otto H. Kahn | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

There is nothing so unfamiliar as this familiar world of ours in the all-transforming hands of Shaw. And there is no play of Shaw's in which the world appears more elusive, more charmingly decadent, and less itself than in "Heart break House." The Repertory players enjoy the privilege...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/11/1926 | See Source »

In a complex civilization like ours, where the rewards of commercial success are very great, the primitive idea of tithes has become an anachronism and an absurdity, and no system of proportional giving can satisfy the demands of justice, where the income is often many times that of a prime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sir Henry's Charity | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

On the same bill is "Hogan's Alley", which takes another crack at Irish mickfighting in New York. When we were very small indeed, there was a little boy named Oscar who lived beside a vegetable garden. Every Fall when Jack Frost got in his dirty work on the vegetables...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

Mr. Lupino was at times so frightfully silly that we were very much afraid that we would be thrown out of the theatre for letting out that extra loud laugh of ours. Ever since childhood, we have heard British humor widely ridiculed in America, and ever since childhood we have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/26/1926 | See Source »

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