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...extremely bad way. Trackage was far out of proportion to traffic; service was often unreliable; profits were nonexistent. Today, however, Canadian National is a worthy rival to Canadian Pacific; since 1922 has steadily risen in performance, in prestige. For in that year came U. S.-born Englishman Sir Henry Thornton to change Canadian National from liability to asset...
...ANGEL THAT TROUBLED THE WATERS And other Plays-Thornton Wilder-Coward-McCann...
...about to make my point. . " . 2. I am now making my point. ... 3. I have just made my point"-time-honored prescription for effective exposition. No such precepts trammel Thornton Wilder, apparently indifferent to getting his point across. Says he in a luminous foreword to 16 playlets, "I have composed some forty of these plays, for I had discovered a literary form that satisfied my passion for compression. Since the time when I began to read I had become aware of the needless repetition, the complacency in most writing." The form he discovered requires but three minutes and three characters...
Prof. Phelps took his text for his inaugural sermon from Thornton Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Key) rather than scripture. "Wilder says that a revival of religion must be accompanied by a revival of rhetoric. . . . The public finds it difficult to forgive Arnold Bennett for writing trash when he is capable of much better work...
...Lawrenceville in New Jersey, the loss (for a year) of Novelist-Professor Thornton Niven Wilder, writing a novel in England, tramping with a friend; the gain of ten new Masters...