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...life, the longing, the success, the disappointment of the Theatre. He has selected a character which he himself played in real life-the song and dance man of the vaudeville circuits. He has posited as his thematic philosophy the principle that people of the Theatre can never shift allegiance to love or to the world of business. After years of waiting, his song and dance man hears the knock of opportunity on the door that leads to Broadway success. Failing miserably in his tryout, he enters business to pay a debt. Three years later, a completely successful man of affairs...
After the Armistice, Bethlehem faced a difficult problem of converting its facilities to peacetime production. The shift was made gradually and without great loss, and has now been completed. Only about 2% of the company's entire property and plant investment now consists of emergency ordnance plants. Bethlehem's feat is all the more remarkable when it is recalled that the Midvale Steel and Ordnance Co., taken over by Bethlehem in 1923, was likewise primarily a producer of war materials...
...shift in the Crimson front, with which Coach Winsor experimented in the Tech game, consists of Beals and Hodder exchanging places. The change has aroused some comment in sport circles, and is popularly explained by Beals frequent failure to score under opportune conditions. Supporters of this view point out that in Harvard's scheme the wing is the scoring position, and explain that it was only Beals' unusual ability that kept him in the first string when apparently ineffective at his post by the right boards. This theory loses force, however, when it is remembered that Hodder, the new right...
...Garner declared: "I can promise now that I can present a plan which will raise $500,000,000 new taxes with little complaint about it, and also relieve the people of $270,000,000 tax burdens. I would shift $500,000,000 from the shoulders of those least able to bear it and place it where the burden could be better sustained. ... In any bill I write, the principles will be economically sound. I will never do anything to impair the right of property. I am a property owner myself and I believe in respecting that right...
Mary Jane McKane. Mary Hay has been chiefly known as the wife of Richard Barthelmess, cinema star. One suspects that her extraordinarily effective activity in this new musical piece may shift the balance. The play is unquestionably the best musical comedy currently exhibiting on Broadway. And Miss Hay, despite her moderate equipment as a vocalist and as a dancer, is unquestionably the best of the play...