THE last fifty thousand is always the hardest. I am thinking of old Display, who has won more than a quarter of a million dollars, and whom Walter Salmon hopes to race until he has passed Zev’s ...

EDITH WHARTON’S “Twilight Sleep” is another contribution to the study of fashionable New York society. Pauline Manford symbolizes the cult of physical comfort, the flight from reality, the fear of ...

THE favorite newcomer is “Dunt Esk! !” by Milt Gross, in which that astounding combination of observation and phonetics continues to crystallize in humor. Poppa and Momma Feitelbaum, Looy and Nize ...

He is thoroughly sympathetic towards Paul Jones, but has as keen an eye for his weaknesses as for his virtues. On the vexed question of why John Paul took unto himself the name of Jones, Mr. Russell’s ...

Distinguished, though, by a rare taste, by a true and pure beauty, this picture is, in fact, that “step forward” in the movies so often heralded, catching swiftly and surely, as it does, one of the ...

It’s not inconceivable that, had the firms resisted the President’s executive orders, his momentum for lawlessness might have been curbed.

THERE are certain disadvantages to having the strange power over the Press which Mr. Ziegfeld seems to have. You get your publicity all right, but you have to live up to it. And nobody, not even ...

Eli Durst’s images of activities that instruct and influence children—R.O.T.C., school plays, cheer practice—resist ...

THE best swordsman, it turned out, is on neither the British nor the American fencing team. Two years ago Leo Nunes of the New York A.C. won the saber and épée championships of the United States. He ...

The technology is now popping up onscreen in everything from “The Morning Show” to “St. Denis Medical”—but nothing on air ...