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...play that sets out to be sophisticated and arrives only at tedium. Most of the lines are like firecrackers that end, not in a snap, but in a sultry hiss. Probably much of this inefficiency is due to the acting. Alma Tell is sorely put to it to play a fascinating and experienced woman of the world. Such a woman must have a certain cutting edge. Miss Tell provides a round performance. A. E. Anson manages much better as a lean and saturnine seducer. The others do not matter...
...essay, Steele could profitably deal with the young gentlemen who edit the Freshman Red Book at Harvard, and tell how they, in an effort to enliven their offering, filled what should have been a dignified history of the activities of a Harvard class, with page after page of miscellaneous snap shots, captioned by slang phrases and the nick names of class heroes...
...charge of the appointment of Senior advisors has determined on several innovations. The most important of these is the plan, which will be tried next year, of having regular office hours for the advisors. Then, at least, the Freshman, thirsting perhaps for nothing more than information as to "snap" courses, will have a refuge to which he can go and there pour out his troubles. Although in effect this plan shifts to the Freshman the burden and responsibility of making the first contact with his advisor, it is a distinct forward step in the difficult problem of helping the first...
...something unknown, but something that says in effect: "We hereby serve notice, by our enjoyment of this show, and what snap we've put into it, and the careful smoothness that we've tried to polish it with, and a number of other things that senile graduates wouldn't understand that this is just the first year's evidence that some modestly important things can be expected of the rejuvenated Pudding after it hits its stride...
Historically, of course, Britain has been the leading creditor nation of the world, and the Bank of England rate has been accustomed to leading rather than following. For the time being, however, this former situation has been exactly reversed; and when the Wall Street money merchants snap the whip, Lombard Street must jump. Britons have the same unquestioning faith in the Bank of England as in the monarchial form of government; and to financiers of the older school this episode of London's setting her money rates by those of the U. S. centre is indeed humiliating. Many indignant...