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Tragic Eighteen. Under brown, rugged ceiling beams, from a row of quaint stalls that-substitute for balcony and gallery in the Charles Hopkins Theatre, the audience follows, sympathetically but a trifle wearily, the fortunes of an Iowa innocent (Neil Martin) on Columbia University's Broadway campus. Even before classes have fairly begun, he is in love with a chorus girl. Mother and brother are powerless to interfere. Not till the unfortunate chorus girl confides that she is possessed of a hidden liability five months old does poor Teddy go back to his books, a sadder and a wiser...
...purchased for him, and it ends happily-except for poor old Josie. Mr. Barry presents it all in a fantasy-pageant, tender, sometimes sharply satirical. Never does he allow the symbolism to intrude upon the essential humanity of his men, women, and horse. Every minute is genuine theatre-a quaint hodgepodge, loosely bundled together, always delightful...
...everlasting Smithness, a vegetable condition as happily comfortable as it is unadventurous. Symptomatic of the prevalence of Smithness are the prodigious sales, not only of romantic fiction for vicarious thrills, but of American Tragedies, dismal Main Streets and kindred counter-depressants. This book, which mirrors Smithness with shrewd, quaint brightness, will never have such sales. It is not among the Smiths' failings to stare at themselves in a looking glass, though they do like going to Coney Island and seeing how awful they seem in the exaggerating panels of the "crazyhouse...
...whole matter died away, but it was not forgotten. The loud grumbling of Delaware's Democratic Senator (see p. 10) was as nothing compared to rumors that presidential confidence could never again be respected as of yore; that the quaint rag-doll called "Spokesman" might be pitched aside and the President left without defense from his own tongue...
...slant of lines is quite apparent and a Figure's angles and shape can be inferred without feeling all his sides'. The Flatland women are mere straight lines, like needles. Hence they are brainless; hence also dangerous, for they would puncture a male Figure upon collision. Quaint rules for women result. Society is ranked by the number and regularity of its members' sides, from formidable isosceles-triangle policemen with sharp apexes, through an equilaterally -triangular bourgeoisie and square professorial, to a polygonal aristocracy and circular priesthood. The narrator is a square professor who, after a visit...