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Myrtie is an addition to the sob drama. Author Goodhue seeks to arouse your pity for a bad girl, bent on going wrong for the sake of the silk stockings she'll get. Then she meets a priest, falls in love with him, tries to go straight, to win his smiles and maybe his kisses. When he repulses her advances, bang goes another convert! After a year with another man, again the wages of sin are a baby. The play groans under a load of sentiment. The characterization is conventional, enlivened by small-boy efforts to say something risqu...
...fact that Dean Greenough of Harvard had attributed failures in college to clubs and girls, an accurate account reveals the fact that he also laid the blame at the door of tutoring schools and a notorious inability to concentrate combined with a lack of intellectual ambition. The Dean is wrong in adhering to the popular conception that the social life of college is responsible for semi-annual dropping by the wayside. He is right, however, in his last three points...
...with the twenty-four hour mind . . . hopes to get strong by paying a friend to swing the dumbbells." It is an encouraging feature, however, that there are so few such men in our colleges. The trend of education is fast rising, if the signs are not wrong. The near future will find the present type of black sheep entirely weeded...
...wife to your best friend!" A Viennese doctor and his wife try it. It's only because the locale is insouciant Vienna that shooting doesn't occur. The physician, rather unwillingly, becomes involved with a lecherous married woman, largely because his wife is jealous of the wrong girl. When the wife discovers how easy it is for a best friend to fall in love with her, peace is restored. "Sauce for the Goose" is snappily translated into "fifty-fifty." A sly hint is given of the temptations to which a fashionable doctor is subjected by lovely patients with...
...bell is an exact science. "I ring it on the hour and the minute, and as near as possible on the second," said Mr. Conant, "I've been on the job going on thirteen years, never missed a day, and never had a complaint on the bell being wrong. Two-thirds of the students and professors come to me for the right time, and most of the clocks in the square are set by the bell...