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...cured. "The underlying cause of economic trouble in the world is the unequal distribution of wealth. In England, one-tenth of the population owns nine-tenths of the wealth. In this country, 103 families control the 14 basic industries. I found students of Europe thinking, and leading in reform. I wish I could say the same thing of American students...
...this, attempts to raise the level of the American drama will be on the whole no more successful than attempting to raise one's self by one's boot-straps. Experiments on the professional stage without that scorned attribute, business success, can never hope to accomplish a permanent reform. Until the representative audience can appreciate a steady diet of good plays, the "Demi-Virgin" type of production will persevere. Unless this outside education of the audience can be accomplished, it may be necessary to apply St. John Ervine's heroic remedy a moratorium of the drama a closing...
...ideal and idealistic remedy, of course, is a reform among the managers themselves which would result in the production of only decent plays. But apparently such a reform is out of the question, if only for the reason that the indecent plays make money on the free advertising gained from the controversies about them. Such, at least, has been the history of one play still holding the boards in New York...
...Desmond, who is an author and a journalist is best known for his work in connection with Ireland. As a special correspondent for several London papers, he was the first Englishman to be admitted to the midnight court of the Sinn Fein, and was also received into the Ulster Reform Club, thus gaining an intimate knowledge of both parties. The meeting will be open only to members of the Liberal Club...
Rarely a day passes during one's college career--especially during the later years--without one's hearing a complaint as to the workings of Harvard occasionally accompanied by some suggestion of reform. Some of the more widely recognized grievances are from time to time discussed in these columns; some are hinted at in Lampy's more serious moments; but most of them pass unheeded and are generally forgotten. Viewed in this light, perhaps no part of the questionnaire issued by the 1922 class Committee is more important than question number 27 and the blank pages...