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...founder of the present dynasty. Education is made free and obligatory for both sexes. All power is derived from the people and the legislative power is to be exercised conjointly by King and Parliament. The King and the Court did not, however, wish the Sovereign to be the sort of king " who reigns but does not govern." They held the constitution up for some time by claiming that the legislative power should be solely with the monarch and that he should in no way be responsible to Parliament. In the face of public opinion and a threatened revolt, both...
...English students objected (if they seriously objected at all) to the sloppy writing which permits a few dots to replace vivid language. Effective as the imagination may be the pantomime of snapping one's fingers can hardly rival a few hearty words in expressing vigorous emotion of any sort...
...John Ervine, author of John Ferguson and Jane Clegg, produced in this country by the Theatre Guild, recently wrote an article in a London paper discussing bad manners in the theatre. He suggested that a sort of pound be established in the pit for the herding together of late comers. Thus they could see the play without disturbing the rest of the audience...
...Society of American Singers. The organization gave two or three memorable seasons of light opera in New York, including most of the Gilbert and Sullivan works. For some reason the New York appearances were discontinued, not for any lack of popular support, apparently. Hinshaw is a splendid sort of person, a big, cordial fellow, who, raised on a farm, fell in love with music in his boyhood through the medium of a cornet, and who admits that, through all his years of distinguished success, he has never lost his early flame for the little keyed trumpet...
Bernard Shaw once said that ten years of cheap reading had transformed the English from the most stolid nation on earth to the most sentimental and hysterical, but, as with generalizations of this sort, the exact opposite is also true. People who are allowed to satisfy their sentimental and morbid desires, and to indulge their delusions of grandeur by way of the romantic novel, the detective story and the heroic biography, are less liable to exercise them in real life. What the Freudians call a " compensation mechanism " is set up by trashy literature which dissipates the energy of the impulses...