Show 11 I CURRENT MAGAZINES 11 j I THE BOOKMAN Even that demigod of the AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican lean theatre Eugene ONeill O'Neill now pr proves ves to b be b quite duite human by takina taking a n. complete fall from Crom critical grace grac with his latest play play- Dynamo Although Al- Al Al Although though his massively impressive Impress vc e eStrange Into Strange Interlude is running in its second yea jear rear nearby Dynamo already has faded from the New Neu NewYork York theatrical scene Ernest Boyd writing In The Bookman calls the production of ot I Dynamo the most important re recent recent re- re cent event in iii the New York the the- atre It as was important not only be because because because be- be cause Mr O Neill Is the tho foremost American dramatist of today but also because of its reception a at the hands bands hands hands' oC ot the critics who almost al aI almost al- al most unanimous in rendering an adverse adverse ad- ad verse verse verdict verdict For Tor the first time I I think sInce his Ills rise to fame Mr ONeill O'Neill has been strictly scrutinized tried and fo found n wanting WORLDS WORLD'S WORK As far fat back backs back backas as 1893 American rail road trains were welO of ot travelIng travel travel- Ing at more than miles an ho hour r. r In lu 1901 over o a a. mile live mlle stretch one one- engineer set a record of ot mites an hour two hour two miles a minute flat Yet today the count country's s fastest fastest fast- fast est scheduled train travels tra at only GG miles s an hour ourn on an all average V and an average 45 miles an hour is considered considered considered con con- a good maximum for a n mainline main marn l n nUne line lino train over a long run Those figure would make it appear ap ap appear pear that instead o of progressing railroads have slowed down in the past tw twenty enty j years ears while motor ca cars s sand and airplanes have bee been T m making this tho he- he speed age But such is not the case points out out- W. W SomervIlle analyzing the tho changes In recent lecent railroad railroad rail rail- road operation in the tue April issue of ot Worlds World's Work The fact is that while top speed schedules have ha been reduced main mainline line ine trains everywhere are transporting transporting trans tram porting passengers at from ten to twenty miles an hour faster than a generation back and with a vastly greater degree of or safet safety li h he finds I It is the safety first consideration consider atlon that has slowed down for example example ex ex- ample the fliers filers that once made the tho New York Chicago run Tun in 18 hours an and that now take lake 20 hours hours for for the trip Safety demanded the an car points out Mr 11 Somerville who shows that the aver average avela ago passenger train of ot today wel weighs hs five times as much as aR that of tle he early early- days of the century The net result was heavier header equipment and heavier power Safety requires regular arrivals arrivals arrivals ar ar- rivals and departures And from the tho other side aIde ot of the fence efficient operation demands strict adherence to time tables and constant observance observance observance ance of ot safety I rules As a byproduct prod by you jou ou have an increased cost HARPERS HARPER'S BAZAR Miladys Milady's skirts of 1929 are aie going goIn- to be the most capricious creations since the first woman cave-woman draped herself herselt in the first tigers tiger's skin As Asfor Asfor Asfor for that debatable revelation the I feminine knee it Is in for a season ot see now now see lt and you now dont don't In da daylight light It is likely to be beas as bare as a a. shucked o oyster ster in m evening It will be as discreet and secretive e as Lindbergh's wedding g plans These at least east are the aims aim of ot the leading Parisian n designers as set down v by Baron naron de do Meyer Harpers Harper's I 1 f 9 bazar expert after a preview of or the creations to be shown al along mg the Rue do de doIa la Ia l Faix for example has made his newest departure in a accentuating the the difference between n lay day and nd evening evening eve eve- eve eve- ning Ing f fashions he says in th tho curlent curent current cur- cur rent lent numb number rot of the fashion monthly All AU his day clothes are undoubtedly undoubted undoubted- ly longer though not likely ever ever to attain the tho length of his new ne eve evening ve ping ning dresses which are down to the gr ground both back and fr front ont They hide the limbs envelop ankles ana and render lender feet almost i invisible SCRIBNERS SCRIBNER'S Charles Dickens made himself unpopular unpopular unpopular un un- popular in th the United States Slates by by his caustic comments on American civilization and by his attempts at reform re reform reform re re- form sa says s sHarry Harry B. B Smith in an an article Dickens as D Don DOii li Quixote in inthe tho the April Scribners Mag Magazine Dickens tried to 10 all our errors at once declares Mr Smith who ho owns some rare Dickens works lie Ho held slavery In abomination and ho he could see neither beauty norI nor utility in the tho s' s dissemInation dissemination I of tobacco juice juko Not many years jears passed before before- Americans mos most of them saw aw that Boz was light right but in 1840 we resented a Britons Briton's discovery that slavery was not entirely entirely entirely en en- right and noble and ve we re re reviled re- re viled vUc 1 the tho critic of ot the medium for street decoration then in vogue The novelists novelist visit to the east casU cin ern em penitentiary of Pennsylvania re r rc- rc hi his arraignment I i n. n n. n n ot of the me the I n. n n. n n the hi his arraignment i ot of me the su suIted It e d i in n s a rr a g system of ot solitary confinement He lIe selected as a a. typical illustration of its evils a a. German thief who was known afterward as Dickens s Dutchman Of ot him the author Wrote A more dejected heartbroken heartbroken heart heart- broken wretched creature It Would be bo difficult to imagine What hat a spectacle This poor poor creature driven into his grave This rIlls was in 1841 In 1870 Dickens died The poor loor creature who was a as being driven en n into his grave lived for twenty jears e rs afterward serving several terms following the the one during dUlling I which Dickens saw v him |