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...better than building up material careers in print. As a starter, Bea was persuaded to marry the middle-aged boarder. With her mother dead, her father helpless from a stroke, her husband (insufficiently insured) killed in a train wreck, a baby and no prospects, it might look to the reader as if Bea's career had slid back at the start. But only to jump further, Bea and her authoress simply roll up their sleeves...
Unquestionably the Poetry Room has been in existence long enough to demonstrate its value to the library and to the reader of poetry. It has failed to do so because it has no real justification, material or otherwise. Under the circumstances any expenditure of money on it not strictly necessitated by the nature of its endowment can hardly be justified...
...modern reader seldom realizes that most Elizabethan, Jacobein, and Restoration lyrics were written to be sung; and as a result, he misses much of their intrinsic charm and beauty. This volume of the songs of John Dryden, collected together for the first time, includes the original music by Purcell, Grabu, and Draghi, never before made available to the public. In it one can now study the poems as they were originally presented, as Restoration audiences heard them first...
...business before the War, organized B. & K. with Sam Katz in 1917. He had three brothers in B. & K. with him, one of whom, John, was elected last week to succeed him as secretary-treasurer. One brother is dead; one left the show business to become a Christian Science reader. Barney Balaban is 46, bald, quiet, reserved, able. He rides horseback nearly every morning. In the silent picture days it was he who thought of having orchestra scores to fit the picture's moods...
...quite big enough for all of them when the fugitive bank president joined their company, the Sweeneys stepped in, helped their protégés through the winter to one more spring. As in most fanciful satires, probability is offended sometimes; but the reader, never...