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Innocent Eyes. The Winter Garden again turns out a revue of the standard bouncing pattern, with possibly more gold on the costumes, and less costumes on the girls...
...product of Prof. George P. Baker's Harvard 47 Workshop is true to the pattern, using a revivalistic meeting to disclose the name of the seducer of a girl who has been betrayed, despite her heavily ingrained religiosity. Aside from this feature, chief interest in Roscoe W. Brink's play is atmospheric, its locale being laid in an out-of-the-way community in the Catskills where piety is the main business and every other interest subsidiary. Here, in 1870, the elders, on finding a girl has been misled, hasten her marriage to the son of the village...
...chief evidence on which the opinion is based is the patterns of the teeth. The elevations are identical with those of the Neanderthal and other primitive men, and nearly so with those of the Australian blacks and certain Indians, the most primitive of living races. Civilized men, after thousands of years of a soft, mainly agricultural diet, have a very different kind of dental pattern. In the Dryopithecus, the cusps had already expanded so that they met over the grooves, causing "tunnels," which are the potent causes of tooth decay in modern...
...reason why America, which is so astonishingly composite in some respects, should set up either the German standard, as formerly, or the English standards, as is the tendency at present, for whole-hearted worship and emulation. Before tradition becomes absolutely hide bound and impregnable, there is still opportunity to pattern the best features of the best Old World systems. Perhaps some of these would not be compatible but the tutorial methods of the English grafted on the personal freedom of the French might make as nearly perfect a combination as will ever be devised. And as a matter of fact...
...Practically all the contemporary British literary and dramatic world is to be met within his pages. There is George Bernard Shaw, "the enfant terrible of London, always in the highest spirits and the strangest clothes, that might quite easily have been made at home, bilious in colour, and in pattern vegetarian like his diet"; Beerbohm Tree, who could never quite memorize his lines and, therefore, "with the most fertile invention posted prompters under tables, behind rocks or ancient oaks, so that the elusive word might be whispered to him as he moved in well disguised anguish from cache to cache...