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...While speaking of experience, I would like to say that I consider it the essential requirement of an actor. It is what every aspiring young player should try his utmost to get. Your dramatic schools are fine, and much that they teach is worthwhile, but without experience I would never consider hiring an actor to play in any production...
...area of land in production would be sufficiently limited so that it could be operated at its utmost efficiency without flooding markets and destroying exchange ability...
Here are two logical demands sharply defined by idealism and practicality. But our editorial souls feel utmost repugnance at an attempt to mix the two, as recording in the Yale Daily News editorial. Well and good to divert popular sentiment toward debating, but not in this way. Spare the ancient art, and the renowned Websters and Burkes the humiliation of having their oratorical science debased by the introduction of frivolity. There is a definite place for a course or practice of round-table public discussion, a kind of glorified and intelligent bull-session on a specified subject, but there...
What perplexed liquor men was the fact that Prohibition was ridden out of the Constitution on the principle of returning liquor to the states. Yet here was a Democratic Administration doing its utmost to retain complete control in Washington. Observers saw unmistakable signs of Brain Trusting, with distillers given the choice of accepting an arbitrary code or facing the threat of a government sales corporation. No theory of social expediency was advanced in support of Federal liquor control, and observers concluded that it was merely another manifestation of the Brain Trust's passion for centralization. Die-hard Drys were...
...build up and equally hard to hold; they are well worth emphatic support. But a closer examination of Governor Rolph, the man, would have elicited fewer surprised and pompous tut-tuts. Quite simply, the governor is an amiable nit-wit whose capacities as an administrator were taxed to the utmost when running a city government and are hopelessly inadequate to the complicated job of manipulating the machinery of a state. Though his term contains one bright gem which made him nationally known--the unconditional refusal of Tom Mooney's petition for a pardon--the remainder has been incompetent and drab...