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...what it might be, and that George M. Cohan carries the play by himself, making the evening quite pleasant. The greatest contemporary American play-wright,--so I have heard--Eugene O'Neill, has a difficult task in maintaining his reputation. When he was in Provincetown, he was comparatively unknown. He wrote slight one act plays for a while which still have a few followers. Then came success with a series of popular plays, but he was rarely heralded by critics as the foremost dramatist until he reached the psycho-analytical period. Here he reached the peak with "Strange Interlude." Soldier...
...Health Service investigators, three of whom anonymously permitted themselves to be bitten by mosquitoes which had bitten patients thought the St. Louis epidemic was on the decline. Understandable is the anxiety which many a Midwesterner feels over the spread of encephalitis. Cause and cure of the disease are still unknown. The Public Health Service has begun field work at Independence, Mo., where 50 cases of encephalitis were last fortnight reported. -ED. "Cheap Bronze Plaque" Sirs: -Harmsworth Cup. . . . There is always one serious mishap in the Harmsworth Cup races. . . ." (TIME, Sept. 11). Let TIME'S sport reviewer note...
...cutting the bread with a hatchet and finally nailing the sandwich to the roof. An escalator then lowers Mr. Cook to the stage where he relates at length the trip he has just made from Cripple Creek, Colo.-"a good night's work if I do say so." Unknown to him, Miss Ona Munson, a flaxen-haired soubrette with a childish uncertainty in her voice, has stowed away in the cab. For her benefit the undismayed comedian does a complicated tap dance up & down a pair of Tom Thumb steps, sits down at a portable piano and sings...
...Rumbling" is a word unknown in U. S. aviation. Mr. Simmonds defined it as the practice of using a plane's engines to help it into an airport "instead of using proper skill and judgment in gliding to the desired point . . . without help from the engines." He viewed with alarm the danger of an engine cutting out while the pilot is rumbling in. Moreover, he contended that habitual reliance on engine power causes a pilot to lose his ability to make a forced landing "deadstick" if necessary. Oldtime pilots prefer not to rumble, Mr. Simmonds found; but operators insist...
Excited book-boomers have compared this unusual biography to James Boswell's Life of Johnson, to Herman Melvill's Moby Dick, to Charles Montagu Doughty's Arabia Deserta. The Book of Talbot is a biography of a comparatively unknown man written by his widow. Gravely, not to say solemnly told, it is sometimes pompous but never inane. Authoress Clifton's fierce reverence for her subject does at times succeed in making her manner grand...