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...safe to say that the tradition of reading poetry aloud is not to be killed by a lot of theorizing. Every poet may want to be his own Aristotle, but all his legions of poetic theories will not dethrone the gods unless he writes poetry. There is no test but time; beauty never dies...
Your "taste test" suggested by Subscriber Lyman Richards of Boston reminds me of a sworn-to-be-true story heard recently at dinner. It does not concern Fiddler Kreisler, nor a Blind sign and cup hung on any famed musician. But it is a thrust, I think, against Mr. Richards' complaint of a widespread musical hypocrisy and his statement that people "impressed by the eminence of artists claim to appreciate what they neither enjoy nor understand...
...forwarding under separate cover a sales booklet which came into my hands recently. I cannot vouch that this test actually took place, but should it only be an impressive piece of high pressure sales talk, I believe it smacks of the truth so far as it concerns monetary returns...
...Louis, James Carson of Philadelphia, John Atwater of Rockville Centre, L. I., and seven other men in evening dress suspect when they joyfully and separately entered the Hollywood Restaurant on Broadway one night last week, that they would soon be hustled out as subjects for a prime Prohibition test-case in Manhattan. The Hollywood is a popular middle-class night club of the post-Texas Guinan epoch. Its patrons are attracted by its moderate prices, its undress show. The place is Dry in that the management does not sell liquor, though it does furnish "setups" for guests who bring their...
...discovery, result of pure biological research, was put to test in a Philadelphia hospital. It was found that bed sores, ulcers, when treated with a simple sulphur compound, healed quickly. Only a few days, stated Dr. Hammett, were necessary to cure an ulcer on a Philadelphia bootlegger's foot. Brilliant are the possibilities suggested by this theory. Possibly, predicted some, it may solve the most mysterious of life processes...