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Throughout the week President von Hindenburg continued his desultory search for a new Chancellor (TIME, Dec. 14). Although the Luther cabinet has officially resigned, it continues to function according to German custom until a new Chancellor is appointed. Thus the government of the Deutsches Reich went on exactly as before...
Accordingly when Mr. O'Neill turned for the first time in his life to romance, many people trooped wide-eyed to the little Greenwich Village Theatre. It had long been known that this play of his was based on the magnificent theme of Ponce de Leon and his search for eternal youth. Many people went away a trifle disappointed. The Fountain is a beautiful poem and often a tiresome play...
...most discerning priest would need years to explore before they could half understand it. The attachment was a pitiable thing, the horrible confusion of a sexually uneducated boy and a socially uneducated girl with greed and social position and an uncertain racial standard and a kind of weird search for happiness. . . . Apparently his family lacked both sympathetic wisdom and practical judgment. But the lawyers were not emotionally involved. They could have kept their heads, and if they were any good they could and would have talked like a Dutch uncle to these pathetic people stumbling to their ruin. They should...
Rather he plays upon the subtle confusion of what is reality and what is make-believe with a lightness of touch and yet a depth of penetration which remind us of that philosopher of relativity who wrote "Six Characters in Search of an Author". "The Living Mask", and "Each in His Own Way." If Pirandello is the Philosopher who has turned dramatist. Evreinov in this play is the showman who has become philosopher. Yet he still remains the show man. He knows that "We hear more with our eyes than with our ears...
...Chief Justice Taft, in the Carroll case, said: 'It would be intolerable and unreasonable if a prohibition agent were authorized to stop every automobile on the chance of finding liquor and thus subject all persons lawfully using the highways to the inconvenience and indignity of such a search...