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Evidence of a political complexion was not lacking in the present general strike. The Social Democrat (Labor) body made relatively moderate wage demands; but those of the Pan-Germans (the Austrian Party which advocates union with Germany) were found to be exorbitant. This was taken to mean that the Pan-Germans, who form the coalition with the Christian Socialists, had gone over to the Social Democrats...
...Peter Pan. It is ever so long since one could go to Never-Never Land without taking a real steamship to get there. A great many children have grown up in the meantime. But perhaps it is just as well that the interim was a long one, for, inevitably, Never-Never Land has changed...
...lucky thing is that most of the people that will go to see the new Peter Pan, the changed Never-Never Land, will be youngish people that do not remember very well. Or so young that they never saw Maude Adams at all. Other people matter, of course, but not as much as the youngish ones. They all loved Miss Miller. They never noticed that her voice was a shade shallow and twangy, or that Wendy was a mite too old, or Hook a spot stagey. Being modern children, they might have been disappointed had the company been more impromptu...
...things go on, all the players will get easier, more friendly and familiar with their audiences, remembering that refer Pan is much more a party for every one than a stage play...
...during lunch that an unwatched pan, bubbling over with boiling grease, ignited some coal dust in one of the flues and caused a cloud of smoke and a tongue of flame to issue from the roof over C entry of James Smith Hall. Simultaneously the kitchen and pantry filled with smoke and caused a huried retreat of chefs and maids...