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...best thing is on the stage: an assembly of very aged and very competent variety stars of another day. Emma Francis, at 63, cartwheels fealty; and the composer of the St. Louis Blues plays that fine lament in the sole nonspecial arrangement. There are more, all delightful: unfortunately, there is also an impresario, who delivers a long and mandlin curtain lecture and is generally intolerable. Mr. Sevitsky plays Gilbert and Sullivan with spirit, there is a Popeye, but no Mickey Meuse...
From James M. Cain, a veteran of the days when the Mercury was indeed a sole refuge in a plague-ridden land, there come comments on Hollywood which reiterate the thesis repeated ad nauseam by this writer in these columns, viz., that movies cannot be good, but are excellent considering their number, audiences, and mode of production. For those who road and believe not, subscribe to Consumer's Research and buy not, an article by Mr. Sayre, late of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dispels many puffs which inflate the current nonsense about streamlined horseless carriages...
...sort; and that it has been burdened with superlatives would seem to indicate that publishers have lost none of their old finesse and critics none of their superficiality. The reader, one gathers, is suposed to be startled when Mr. Herbert Agar says, for example, that Washington's sole "job" in 1776 "was to keep an army of some sort in the field, and wait for the English to lose the war;" he is supposed to gasp when he hears that in 1814 "Madison's government... was delighted to be out of the struggle on terms which were not humiliating," that...
...Hall in the Rogers Building, 491 Boylston Street, Boston. These lectures, for which admission is free, but by ticket, are maintained under the will of John Lowell Jr., and have been given annually for the last 94 years. Former President A. Lawrence Lowell '77, and W. H. Lawrence are sole trustee and curator respectively of the Lowell Institute...
...Rienhoff took his chance and last week when the child left the hospital her right, uncontaminated lung had already grown bigger than normal. Soon the sole lung will fill her chest, supply all the air she needs...