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...There is nothing magic about the institutions of a democracy to make them take care of themselves", he said, "men of strong character must take an active part in civic life to make democracy a success. Yet this is seldom the case. Every where you will find people who obey the law and sing the "Star Spangled Banner, Justly, and call themselves good citizens. But suggest to them that they should vote or hold public office, and they would consider it preposterous. Such men are political sackers, they are a maniac to democracy...
Latterly, Mr. Morley has worked with a publishing house, with a magazine and on various newspapers. At present he conducts a colum called The Bowling Green for the New York Evening Post. He lives on Long Island, is married, has three children. Determinedly domestic, he is seldom to be seen in town of an evening, although he spends, as a rule, several months of the year in a New York City apartment...
...Seldom have we seen a musical comedy so finished, so coherent, and so completely first-rate as "Mary Jane", which opened Monday at the Shubert Theatre. From the first scene on a New York subway train to the final embrace in an unbelievably romantic-looking arbor in Central Park, the action is logical and consecutive, accompanied throughout by peculiarly appropriate music. It was to be expected that the composers of "Wild-flower" would produce something worth while; actually they have outdone them-selves, for while none of the songs, with the probable exception of "Toodle-oo", is as distinctive...
...Here is an illustration given me by a man who ran for mayor in one of the great cities of the country a few years ago. A better man has seldom been nominated anywhere, nor one with higher purposes, greater sincerity, or a finer sense of public service. The fight was a hot one and concededly close. He had for weeks been going about the city speaking nightly in five or six different places. One night about 10 o'clock he found himself in a small hall in which there were about 300 persons. It was not until he reached...
John Corbin: "The audience rose with a spontaneity and intensity of enthusiasm which have seldom been surpassed in our theatre...