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...Your Hands!" Plump and harmless as a tabby. Labor Leader "Uncle" Arthur Henderson tried to keep the Party on its well-worn track of merely Talking Socialism. "Labor must be definitely international in its outlook," he orated vaguely. "The National Government is Toryism without disguise. . . . There is need for an advance toward Socialism. . . ." Taking this bit in their teeth, the delegates galloped, bolted. While Leader Henderson begged and pleaded for "caution" the Congress ignored him, cheered to the echo a "labor intellectual," Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (onetime President of the Board of Education) who proposed to block the possibility that...
...formal Town Hall. In Town Hall the programs put on by earnest young singers are fairly well standardized. They include a classical composer or two, groups of French and German songs, a final group in English. James Melton's program conformed exactly to the pattern set by the earnest, more indigent debutants who have preceded him. He sang most of it through his nose, depended on high, exaggerated pianissimi for many of his effects, gave feeble, skin-deep interpretations of well-worn songs. But his venture was noteworthy if his performance was not. A high-priced radio entertainer...
...Trend Toward Naval Limitation running on down the well-worn grooves already made in world public opinion...
More original than the burlesque of advertisements (which is by now a well-worn trick known to every undergraduate funny magazine in the U. S.) was Editor Anthony's policy on "text." Wrote he: "Magazines always have nice pretty text running around their pictures because it looks nice, and because the advertisers insist upon plenty of nice pretty text, but nobody reads the nice pretty text anyway...
...University, and not every performer in the show gets elected to the club. Last week in Manhattan the organization concluded a five-week tour, presenting its 43rd production, East Lynne Gone West, or Virtue Triumphant, Even Unto Death. Squeezing the last few drops of humor from the well-worn procedure of burlesquing the melodramas of the '60s, East Lynne Gone West was for the most part a very solemn affair. The young Mask & Wiggers seemed incapable of brushing aside the influence of their stodgy elders, projecting an atmosphere of good-natured undergraduate fun across the footlights. Saving grace...