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Another play of life behind the footlights; this time in the "two a day". It follows the general pattern of such plays as "Broadway" and "Excess Baggage", but still has an atmosphere of its own. In it Hall Skelley turns from musical comedy to the drama...
...trying to represent the pattern or the temperament of response to conditions of different people. They believe that if these experiments are conducted long enough by people and on a wide enough scale if will be possible to find out facts concerning the human body which will have an effect athletically, industrially, and economically. It will be possible to find out what is wrong with people, what jobs they are fit for why they are not successful in other jobs, and to what diseases they are subject...
Soul, by Muriel Haskell, is an entirely ludicrous pattern, attempting to present, in its melee of prongs and beams and curlycues, an allegory as trite, as uninteresting and as unconvincing as the metaphors in a schoolboy's sonnet...
...other hand, if one is sufficiently sensitive in vision and feeling, it seems as if there would always be all sorts of things in the aspect of objects about us worth recording--color, form, pattern, and that these can be treated in such a way as to give us pretty paint surfaces, harmonious and sparkling color and agreeable design, things which, hung on the walls of our houses or apartments, may add much to the pleasure of our life. The painter therefor treats his subjects as so much material or motive to be made into a pleasant arrangement, a pretty...
...Manhattan, Mrs. J. Stuart Tompkins read of Jacqueline, was piqued into bragging of Boulderwall, her Great Dane house dog. Never permitted to bark, Boulderwall's lips have learned to fashion sounds to the pattern of human speech. Intelligent, she answers simple questions in a voice that is clear, and high-pitched...