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Mister Pitt.* In her desperate search after the minutiae of life Zona Gale has inadvertently snubbed the footlights. Any technical tyro would have respected more highly the rules of the game. Episodic scenes, dank pauses, chatty interludes may indeed be small town life, but they are far from big town theatre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 4, 1924 | 2/4/1924 | See Source »

...play is not as good as Six-Characters in Search of an Author. The best performance is by Robert Edmond Jones, who made the beautiful scenery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 28, 1924 | 1/28/1924 | See Source »

...even in the state; but there always must be a first time, and as a result of the winning of this championship, men have come to regard squash racquets more as a competitive sport, and less as a nice, pleasant pastime for society dilettantes, and for business men in search of exercise. As a minor sport, squash has firmly established itself in the University, and from the stand-point of popularity, it is the second winter sport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORTH THE CANDLE | 1/28/1924 | See Source »

...trusty rapier at his belt and set off for Paris on his faithful and intelligent steed with few misgivings about the future as long as he kept his rapier and his wits well sharpened. At an even earlier date, it was customary to rove over most of Europe in search of chance combats which were productive of much glory and honorable advancement. And later, when the New York Police Force had managed to quell the open warfare popular in the Bowery, it became the custom for warlike gentlemen imbued with the ideals of liberty and justice to go south...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE | 1/23/1924 | See Source »

...borrowed one of these books about five o'clock and signed the promise to return it before leaving the room. The book was in demand and others were waiting to use it. At six o'clock the man was looked for and could not be found. At 6.40 search was made again throughout the Reading Room, again at 7.20, at 8.00 and 8.30, but without success. At 8.50 the man and the book were found and he admitted having been out of the room in the mean time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library Offenders | 1/17/1924 | See Source »

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