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...second scene shows what happened in a smart restaurant seven years before the Niles party. Richard Niles punches the face of his friend Painter Jonathan Crale (Walter Abel) for implying that, by marrying Althea Royce, he is prostituting his talent. The third scene, a year before the second, shows how Richard Niles got involved with Althea Royce in the first place and how he treated his old friends when he first got rich. The fourth goes back a little farther and starts to unravel the story of Richard and his first wife, Althea and the producer she deserted when...
Hugo Enders, a successful Manhattan businessman (notions & novelties) had buried his talent for pure mathematics in the business scramble, but his conscience was still guarding the grave. He disliked his wife's literary, artistic circle, disbelieved in her "career," dispossessed her in favor of more responsive women. As long as he had studied mathematics on the sly with his brilliant friend, Abe Parass, he felt some future hope. But now he never saw Abe ; business opportunities were coming thicker ; soon there would be no future. Hugo tried to still his despair with drink and women. Meanwhile his wife...
...doubt that any undergraduate wanta to read what author undergraduate has written. Whether this attitude is an expression of perennial Harvard indifference or a justified conclusion is uncertain. The aim of the Critic is to deny both; to deny by proving the contrary, by publishing specimens of undergraduate talent which expresses something more than more negation...
...health. Her father had been Albert Arnold Sprague of Chicago, a wealthy wholesale grocer who had indulged his daughter's desire to study the piano and compose. Her house quartet gave her the greatest satisfaction she had ever known. She chose its programs, watched always for undiscovered talent. Often she, too, played with a remote, wooden touch which revealed her increasing deafness...
Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a consistent, uncompromising radical who, if he were in the White House, would make the New Deal look reactionary; one of the best fighters in the Senate and a muckraking investigator of rare talent. He has been nominated to succeed himself when his term expires...