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...never been presented in America but was produced at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in Easter Week, 1919, with overwhelming success by Lady Gregory's own company of Irish players. At the time the press described it "as a fantastic, genuinely funny play in three acts, a wonder play of spell-bound princesses, of kings who masquerade as cooks, of tailors who strut 'as kings, of bearded astrologers and flame-spouting dragons." Critics have pronounced it as her best' work since "The Wardhouse Ward," and said that it is pantomime as pantomime would be written were its librettists artists instead...
...speculation indicates that the liquidation in commodity markets will end some time between December, 1920, and April, 1921. The action of the Federal Reserve Banks in increasing rates and restricting credit practically insured a business readjustment unaccompanied by a financial panic. For "higher interest rates do not spell disaster, but safety, provided they are applied in time." In the opinion or Professor W. M. Persons, statistician of the committee, if we had the old banking system which existed prior to 1914, the present crisis would very likely have seen expansion to the bursting point. In regard to the Boston banking...
...results of the recent elections in Austria, so tensely watched by the rest of Europe, have finally been announced, much to the satisfaction of the Entente. For the Austrians, led by most of their daily journals, have shaken off the spell of Prussian mesmerism and dealt a decided blow to the hopes of an Austro-German State . . . hopes which were not merely fictional, but were worked out on an absolute plan with characteristic German efficiency. Pan-Germanism is the name for this idea which would unite Austria and Germany into one; it has its leaders and thinkers, who were running...
...program follows, the order of speakers being determined by lot: Daniel Webster--His Genius and Character, Edward Everett Josiah David Segal '21. The Spell of the Yukon, Robert Service William McHenry Keyser '20. The Artist's Secret, Olive Schreiner Joseph Turkel '21. An Ode of Dedication (1917), Hermann Hagedorn Charles William Eliot, 2d, '20. The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe Malcolm Howard Dill '20. The New World--To the People of the United States, Lawrence Benyon Benjamin Isadore Sperling '21. The Death of Rodriguez, Richard Harding Davis Frederick Clifton Packard, Jr., '20. On Resistance to Great Britain. Patrick Henry Bung-chen...
...program follows, the order of the speakers being arranged by lot: Daniel Webster--His Genius and Character, Edward Everett Josiah David Segal '21. The Spell of the Yukon, Robert Service William McHenry Keyser '20. The Artist's Secret, Olive Schreiner Joseph Turkel '21. An Ode of Dedication (1917), Hermann Hagedorn Charles William Eliot, 2d, '20. The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe Malcolm Howard Dill '20. The New World--To the People of the United States, Lawrence Benyon Benjamin Isadore Sperling '21. The Execution of Rodriguez, Richard Harding Davis Frederick Clifton Packard, Jr., '20. On Resistance to Great Britain, Patrick Henry Bung...