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...through the eyesight test but was found out. He tried advertising and was good at it, like Author Sherwood Anderson, but resigned to write. In 1926 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, went to France and wrote John Brown's Body. Some months ago he followed the well-worn path to Hollywood to write the dialog for Abraham Lincoln (TIME, Sept. 8). Other books: Five Men and Pompey, The Beginning of Wisdom, Spanish Bayonet...
...essence the new opera is like the well-worn play: the lovers Marguerite (Camille) and Armand are separated by Armand's doting father whereupon Marguerite dies of consumption. But most of the detail has been revamped, modernized. Important to the plot is the repeated jangling of a telephone bell. The costumes are modern. Mary Garden wears pajamas in one scene, in another a gorgeous gold-cloth gown of latest cut, bright with blood-red camellias. The spirit of the music is modern: a waltz theme winds through it all. There is a jazz scene in the second act where...
...Such well-worn legislative phrases jumbled about in the House of Representatives for three days last week as that body got in its last licks on the Tariff Bill. Before the House was a conference report on the measure which settled all but eight items of dispute with the Senate. These eight items were thrown open for House debate and action...
...Dramatic Club feels that "Liliom" is too old and hackneyed to be of value to them or of interest to their audiences they are well justified in seeking elsewhere for it more suitable play. But there is no reason for the Club to condemn "Liliom" on the grounds that its presentation would be contrary to their policy. Better far a well-worn "Liliom", than an over-exotic and unintelligible importation which no American manager would design to produce. If the Club can bring anything new and constructive to stagecraft by producing certain hitherto unknown plays, then there...
...position with the Bank of England has been granted clear title in its final confirmation yesterday. In view of the major problems of unemployment and disorganization of its banking system facing the Labor Cabinet there remains little doubt that the industry and finances of England are hampered by the well-worn cogs of out-worn tradition. In this case the governors of the Bank of England have journeyed across the ocean in their quest for the right practitioner to prescribe the panacea for their ills...