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...burlesque dance, and such a number in the repertory of a professional dancer, means more applause and more money. However, one pays fully for both. The audience cannot appreciate the risks that one has to take to achieve funny and ridiculous positions. In making my curtain calls with my partner after our burlesque number we achieve an added effect by my flying exits into the wings. It the stage manager has had an attack of absent mindedness and is conspicuous by his being away, I either land up against the wall or in a heap on the floor...
...Champions arose to declare that feminine presences had kept the young men mannerly and happy. Co-ed Mary Eikel, for example, had been an able dancing partner for Student Jack Eakin and these two had demonstrated the Charleston to royalty in Siam and Spain. Mrs. Agnes Morrow Scandrett (sister of Dwight W. Morrow, Morgan partner) had been sympathetic and steadying. Mrs. Scandrett thought globe-trotting co-education was "most wholesome...
...International Economic Conference and at the Pan-American Commercial Conference, a foreign-debt bogeyman came to the Chamber's assembly. He was Thomas W. Lamont (J. P. Morgan & Co. partner) who warned against indiscriminate lending of money abroad. U. S. investment bankers are competing so strenuously to place clients' money, that they are demoralizing European governments...
...English Public School he notes the wisdom of "normality" and the danger of "introspection" in a boy's religion. He frankly owns that "there is more in the habits of formal religion than I used to think--In spite of the fact that Christ was a very silent partner in the life of us boys, he was a very real companion." Charles Kingsley was a kinsman, and "the first person to give me the idea that religion made men efficient." His clinical work in a London Hospital, graphically described, stirred searching questions which cut deep into his life. Accidental contact...
BERNARD QUESNAY is the story of the enslavement of a man to his family tradition. Bernard Quesnay is a middle-class Frenchman who returns from the war to become a partner in his grandfather's cloth mills in Normandy. He is an ardent, artistic youth whose spirit revolts at the thought of spending life in bondage to industrialism...