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...Guest, who is connected with the Detroit Free Press, is well known as a writer of verse on topics of every day life. The whole world of little intimate human experiences is his field, and no incident is too commonplace to undergo an appealing and entertaining metamorphosis under the touch of his skillful pen. Such homely topics as the Saturday night bath in the old wooden tub, or the quiet pleasures of Christmas in a simple country home, are the subjects that are the favorite of this writer of human interest...
Beyond this tantalizing obscurity, acting and production are complete and harmonious. Mr. Bennett is sincere, thoughtful, and full of delightful whimsy. It is unfortunate that an extravagant press-agent should herald him on the program as "America's most distinguished actor", though he does his best to earn the title, and his charming curtain-speech won him many Boston hearts. Two or three of the many semi-minor parts, newly filled since the company left New York, are distressing; the rest fit cleanly into the well-planned pattern of the production...
Against such opposition doubly strengthened by Stinnes' control of the press, Dr. Wirth had little chance either greatly to centralize the control of the federal government or to bring early stabilization of the mark. The industrialists, in their role of opposition, permitted the mark steadily to decline thus filling then pockets it and harassing their political control. Their pre-war debts have practically disappeared; the wages they must pay have risen relatively slowly; and all business they do outside of Germany brings them a hand-some profit. So they oil the printing press and drew another trunk load of paper...
...George Liberals, the Independent Liberals, and the Labor Party. The Conservatives advocate a protective tariff, and a conciliatory foreign policy Labor stands for Government control of railroads and mines, and a more steeply-graduated income tax. Both branches of Liberals are betwixt and between. From these parties the British press is unanimous in predicting a greater return of Conservatives and Laborites, than of Lloyd-Georgians; and with this forecast the ex-premier agrees. He has been shaping his policy accordingly. He thinks--and he is usually right--that the Conservatives will fail to secure a majority, and that they will...
...Kalinin, leaders of Soviet Russia, who are supposed to sympathize heart and soul with the aims of the Communist Internationale, have been attending the meetings of the Internationale where they have been expected to speak. This apparent lack of interest has been explained on the ground that the press of official business has kept them away...