... After seven years of this sort of thing the novelty was beginning to wear off, and the music-hall proprietors were seriously using the bioscope as a chaser to clear audiences out of the theatre, when a picture came along that revived public interest in the ...

... first autumn snows, about fifty years ago. The snows are important, but thp period is not, except for the extra isolation it used to impose. For Mr. Walter van Tilburg Clark's novel, in spite of the dramatic nature of its setting, is mainly one of character ...

... a shock to an author on a U.S. lecture tour to be told by a hotel clerk that if he wants a room to show samples in, that will be two dollars extra. Here and there Godfrey Winn received other shocks which convinced him that U.S. hotels are less good, British ...