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...Navy Wilbur, James W. Gerard, Brigadier General Herbert M. Lord (Director of the Budget), William Green (President of the American Federation of Labor), Major General John L. Hines (Chief of Staff), Mayor-elect James J. Walker of New York City, Senators Ferris, Fletcher, Robinson of Arkansas, Caraway, Overman, et al...
...State Senator James J. Walker, Democrat, defeated Republican Frank D. Waterman (fountain pens) 748,000 to 346,000, with a Socialist candidate trailing with 39,000. Incidentally the Tammany boss, Olvany, and the Republican boss, Koenig, both saw their home districts go to the opposite party. Democrats patted Governor Al Smith on the back and gave him credit for the Democratic victory in the city...
...some 20 blocks in the business section of Athens and give the right of excavation to the American School of Classical Studies* (backed by 40 U. S. institutions). Twenty to 30 feet beneath the tract lies the Athenian market-place as it was known by Themistocles, Plato, Demosthenes, et al., in whose day it was as the Forum in the grand days of Rome. Temples and statues famed throughout antiquity will come to light "of far greater importance than Pompeii...
...stage it is the same way. The highest paid actors are not the Barry-mores or the Otis Skinners. The five highest paid actors in American are Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers, Fred Stone, and Ed Wynn--all comedians...
...dramatic methods of expression of the dramatic experiences are reduced, as we know, first of al to words. But the unsatisfactoriness of these methods is evident; we hear more with the eyes than with the ears, and this in my opinion is in the nature of the theatre. There remain gestures, artistically expressive gesticulation, mimicry in the broad sense of the word, the movements expressing our agitations and feelings...