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When Irish-Catholic playwrights experience the tug of pious inspiration, the results are likely to be more ennobling than entertaining. The Joyous Season, like Eugene O'Neill's Days Without End, is a serious and ambitious drama, celebrating Faith. It achieves its purpose smoothly but without that wit which, in plays condoning uncomfortable sophistication, gave Playwright Barry his authority. Handsomely produced by Arthur Hopkins, softly performed in a Robert Edmond Jones drawing-room, it provides Lillian Gish with a role which she acts as gracefully as the easier one her chipper sister has in By Your Leave...
Georgi Dimitroff was the sensation of the Reichstag Fire Trial (TIME, Sept. 25, et seq.). With fiery Bulgar wit he conducted his own defense, taunted Prussian Premier General Hermann Wilhelm Göring into a jittering rage and finally forced State Prosecutor Werner to ask his acquittal...
...excitement incident to Repeal, everyone has neglected one time-tried branch of home industry, to wit, the moonshine trade; the rugged enthusiast in the bathtub, alone, of all the people, has seen the light. The solution of our ills is to encourage the moonshiner, the mountaineer, and his bootleg brand; he should be allowed to issue his product under a special tax, microscopic in dimensions, and should be praised for his simple, homespun way of living and working; he should be glorified in poem and ballad, and should develop a tried and true clientele of drinkers hardy enough to withstand...
Died. Stella Benson Anderson, 41, British novelist and voyageuse; of pneumonia; in Hongay, Tonking, French Indo-China. A suffraget before the War, she aspired to "wit, learning, strangeness, loneliness," went around the world six times in tramp steamers, worked on a Colorado strawberry ranch, did airplane stunting in California, was maid to an opera singer, nearly starved in Japan, shot tigers in India and taught school in China, finished a novel (The Faraway Bride) in Nanking during a Cantonese bombardment. After her marriage twelve years ago to an Irishman in the Chinese customs service she lived mostly in China, where...
Died. Frank Jenners Wilstach, 63, censor of U. S. cinemadvertising & publicity, wit, bibliophile, author, compiler of similes, sometime business manager of DeWolf Hopper, Sothern & Marlowe. Mrs. Leslie Carter, William Faversham; of influenza; in Manhattan. His famed Dictionary of Similes sprang out of his disgust for the phrase, "The news spread like wildfire." "Wildfire," he fumed, "is a disease of sheep. It is also a bolt of sheet lightning. I'm going to end this...