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...Amid the considerable variety of strictly frivolous entertainment currently displayed, these stand among the leaders: Poppy, Music Box Revue, Wildflower, Topics of 1923, Ziegfeld Follies, Mr. Battling Buttler, Runnin Wild...
...noon on Dec. 6 official Washington flocked to the chamber of the House of Representatives to hear the President deliver his message to Congress. Nearly all the members of both Houses were present. The Cabinet marched down the aisle amid applause...
...Nash), tangles herself in trouble at the outset by marrying the idle offspring of the recent rich. Her claim to cosmic recognition at the time was moderate success as a soubrette in a second class London music hall. She is careless of Cockney accent but scrupulous of moral tone. Amid the exotic realities of Monte Carlo, her male acquisition develops desperate ennui and she departs in dis- consolate defiance...
...Well, the rich are being taxed, alive and dead, and it's quite right. One reason why death duties are better than a capital levy is that all the millionaires don't die at once." To this a heckler demanded: "What will you do when you die?" Amid laughter and cheers she flashed back: "I am going to send you my son." She declared that she would hold her seat only until her son was old enough to be a candidate...
...extremists without the slightest saving spark of humor. The most extreme, most serious, most temperamental of them all is Geoffrey Wareham; the most dynamic, intense teacher of elocution who ever upset a household, The household, we might explain, consists of Mrs. Rodney, who tries hard to keep her equilibrium amid the general confusion her daughter Janet, the fiancee of Geoffery and intellectual sparring-partner extraordinary, and various menials, of whom Oliver, Geoffrey's man, is alone indispensable. The others leave because Geoffrey plays the piano in the middle of the night, but no one seems to mind except the unfortunate...