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Helen Hayes is radiantly demure as the flapper, as deft and cocky as a bird. Hers is the only real spark of life in the piece. O. P. Heggie is condemned to suffocate his gorgeous Dickensian caricaturing in a stuffed shirt role. Kenneth MacKenna and Gilda Leary are others who try valiantly to keep their bearings...
...occurred to me, if in a generation I could be the means of helping one only of those who have in them that vital spark we call genius I would in fact be helping indirectly a multitude of my fellow...
Those who feared lest Congress, following some idle resolution, should begin the new year by attending to business are reassured by the promise that the post-holiday session will open with more than the usual amount of oratorical fulmination. The strongest spark firing the barrage which should rather successfully bury the really vital issue of tax reduction is the Mexican situation. The Administration has sold arms and ammunition to President Obregon who will use them to quell the de la Huerta insurrection...
...Stage Guild, the newest dramatic organization of Boston, has followed up its initial success in "Ambush" with a most delightful presentation of "March Hares", by Harry. Wagstaff Gribble. "March Hares", as its title indicates, is a play of temperamentalists, of deadly serious extremists without the slightest saving spark of humor. The most extreme, most serious, most temperamental of them all is Geoffrey Wareham; the most dynamic, intense teacher of elocution who ever upset a household, The household, we might explain, consists of Mrs. Rodney, who tries hard to keep her equilibrium amid the general confusion her daughter Janet, the fiancee...
...relations between Dartmouth and Harvard has been extremely varied, like the ebb and flow of the tides. Although the study of statistics is likely to be anathema to the sensitive and intellectual soul, a glance at the football game records in the Harvard H Book ought to fire a spark of interest even in the highbrow. The first battle with Dartmouth was held in 1882, when each player believed, like Samson, that his source of strength lay in his side-burns. From then on, the results of these games and the positions which they occupied upon the schedule appears...