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There is a leisurely and poetic thoroughness about the piece which should recommend it to many. There is a fair performance by Ruth Chatterton, a good one by Ralph Forbes and an extraordinarily fine one by Robert Loraine, seasoned and admirable English actor who is too seldom lured to our actor-thin theatre...
...Each previous step of enlarging the peace group has left something outside and, therefore, was incomplete. Occasional war was inevitable. But when the peace group involves the whole earth there is nothing left outside and the only war possible is civil war, which by the nature of the case seldom happens and is outlawed...
...seldom reap ease by changing their professions. To command an Italian man-of-war would have been a sinecure compared to the business that occupies him now? a business that involves 80 principal artists, a chorus of nearly 300, an orchestra of 120, 12 assistant conductors, a ballet of 80 and 700 miscellaneous stagehands, ticket takers, officeworkers, wire-pullers. Each season 4 millions is taken in by the box office. Each season Manager Gatti-Casazza goes to probe in Europe for new operas, new singers. It was about some of these that he read so sonorously to the pressmen while...
Football, like business, is seldom pursued for its own sake. As a prominent halfback once said: "I don't run back punts for my health." It is not for amusement that the Harvard squad charges and blocks and tackles all afternoon, and it is not for sheer love of sport that they are now getting ready to grind through signal practice by artificial light. In fact, all this practicing is mighty hard work; ever so much more work than brain work. There is a malicious popular belief that football players are not naturally inclined toward brain work. This is unfair...
...college teams here this autumn, continued: "Your American universities seem to be fresh and very invigorating, with a great deal of energy and spirit but students of the same age lack the maturity which is evident at an English university. They don't take their problems seriously and seldom think constructively until after graduation...