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...serious estimate, so far as we know, has ever been made of the percent of plays in which a man who should do better falls in with a shop girl. The fraction, however, must be a large one. Also large is the percent of actresses who succeed in making the little shopgirl completely artificial. Miss Sheridan, however, with such a part in "Cynara," has achieved the most poignant kind of realism, a success that reflects great credit not only to herself but also to the writing of the play...
...Bearing the white man's burden," if it involved ruthless exploitation in fact, was in theory at least a fifty percent altruistic process. It has given way to an open and unashamed "dollar diplomacy" for which there can be no excuse on other than selfish grounds. The Marines putting down Haitian and Nicaraguan "bandits" and the Japanese subduing Chinese "bandits" are instruments of similar policies. Manifest destiny calls and kindly paternalism answers with guns if need...
Fifty-eight per cent of last year's upperclassmen had no cuts in their allowances during the past year, according to a report made public by the CRIMSON and the "Lampoon" recently. It was also found that the average cut in allowances amounted to six percent last year. Among other statistics the report discovered that 52 per cent of the upperclassmen had some sort of laxative on hand, 59 per cent used a mouthwash, while 82 per cent had in their possession antiseptics, such as iodine...
...Senator McKellar so excited about these taxpayers? In 1931 his State contributed one-half of one percent of the Federal income tax. Obviously the interests of Tennessee in world recovery far surpass her interest in Federal taxes. When one remembers that a world recovery would instantly reduce the burden of taxes, it is really hard to see what Senator McKellar thinks he is doing for his own constituents or for anyone else...
...drains to the Mississippi, and the great plains begin." Authoress Faith Baldwin, introduced by Author Achmed Abdullah, writes of "Love and Romance," estimates that Colyumist Dorothy Dix is the best public advisor on such tender themes. Contributor Edward L. Bernays, writing the blurb for "Women" innocently observes: "Forty-nine percent of the population are of the feminine sex. And yet women still seem to be the perennial novelty that they have always been...