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Despite the connotation of the title, the play has absolutely nothing to do with the eighteenth amendment, and jokes on the already outworn subject of prohibition have been strictly barred.
Not the least astonishing feature of the game is the extraordinary devotion to duty exhibited by the enforcement officers. The history of the last eighteen months indicates that they are by far the most zealous of all our public servants. But why? Surely the mere satisfaction of exposing the sins...
Prohibition is still a popular source for vaudeville quips. Last night at Keith's the billtoppers, Billy B. Van and James A. Corbett, had the house with both hands in their skit. "The Eighteenth Amendment", and Percy Bronson and Winnie Baldwin presented a one-act fantasy, picturing the effect of...
Corbett is still the same old Jim, tall, well-tailored and wearing the same impenetrable face. He forms a perfect foil for the antics of his partner, his eloquent speech on the eighteenth amendment being completely lost in the gales of merriment aroused by the contortions of Van, as the...
Group II is legal. Professor Chafee, of the Law School, in his recent book, Freedom of Speech, states: "The true boundary-line of the first amendment can be fixed only when Congress and the Courts realize that the principle on which speech is classified as lawful or unlawful involves the...