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...bookshop is an insidious thing. Its portals are as inviting as the jaws of a trap. The unwary passerby is almost irresistibly lured into its mellow interior, perhaps to while away a pleasant hour in contemplation of its variegated shelves, perhaps only to escape a sudden shower. There is so agreeable an absence of obligation. No one feels the least demand upon his purse when he enters a bookshop, any more than when he strays into a friend's library. He means only to "look around," feels a. certain pride in assuring the unobtrusive salesman that he is hardly...
...says the newspaper reader of today. Yet but a short distance out on the stormy Atlantic hovers romance in plenty; unsolved tragedies, unidentified bodies washed ashore, feminine accomplices and love interest, sudden fierce skirmishes on the high seas, in fact all the sundry trappings of blood-and-thunder yarns. All that lacks is a Stevenson or a Conrad to write the modern romance...
...sons in the War in both the American and German armies, and underwent the agonies of such a sardonic situation. ''They might be killing each other," she would say, with a sudden look of sorrow on her merry face. One son went to horrible doom in a sunken German submarine. These emotional pangs have bred in her a great pity and tenderness for soldiers of all races. It is this which has made her devote herself to the American Legion, for whose benefit she sings constantly...
world, would eliminate the seeds of war. They could not of a sudden change the faith of a lifetime and substitute the methods of war for the slower forces of love and coöperation...
...better than 'Oedepus Rex'", he said in a sudden burst of enthusiasm. "It is damn good melodrama. People think that there is something learned and scholastic about it. But it's not. It's the sort of play that any one can enjoy. It has rapid action and gripping dramatic interest. And that's why I'm giving this production,--to show that a great classic play can be enjoyed. I don't want just the highly educated to come to this play; I want the great public,--the man in the street. It has its appeal not only...