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...Moneypenny. Perhaps it was the purpose of this play that, after seeing it, one should go out among the trees, drink buttermilk, nibble roots and herbs, renounce money as "the root of all evil" (a line in the play). This purpose was not accomplished. Author Channing Pollock, a great showman, is not a great artist. He has tried to do a Faust, with snatches of The Adding Machine and the Ballet Mechanique. His devil is a silk-hatted Babbitt named Mr. Moneypenny, who seizes an old and whining clerk named John Jones, gives him ticker tape and a Park Avenue...
CHARLES DICKENS, A Biography From New Sources-Ralph Straus-Cosmopolitan ($4). Dickens the showman sketched with humor and sympathy...
...Showman Ringling, Educator Flexner, Novelist Croy, Banker Warburg, Gasman Insull, the crew of the Rofa, arrived, variously by the Berengaria, Paris, Santa Louisa, Deutschland, Tuscarora, Majestic, while Poloist Milburn, Actress Larrimore, Democrat Silzer, Balloonists Eimermacher, Zech, Golfarchitect Emmett, Producer Shubert, Shopkeepers Gimbel, Filene, Singer Hempel, sailed, variously, by the Majestic, Deutschland, Bermuda...
Last week, the Better Element having forgotten it was in politics, and "the town" being weary of her welldoing, Mrs. Landes was defeated for re-election by Frank Edwards, a retired Seattle showman. This time the Mayor-elect's margin was 19,000 votes...
...first time, edited by him, played by him surely and subtly, with immaculate rhythms. Then came the compatriot Delius with The Walk to the Paradise Garden from A Village Romeo and Juliet?and the maneuvers on the stage were forgotten for the results they attained. Sir Thomas the showman had become Sir Thomas the poet. True, he lapsed a little in the Tschaikowsky B Flat Minor Concerto, but then the Concerto with all its noisy trappings was for Pianist Vladimir Horowitz*, and served him accordingly. Sir Thomas came back with Mozart's C Major Symphony, Berlioz' Chasse Royale...