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...rouse interest in a millionaire who has unwittingly adopted a young crook and who wants to marry him off to a hand-picked mate. The lyrics, smooth, adroit, prettily rhymed and easily audible, are its only saving grace. Queenie Smith, with her 48 inches of saucy gaminerie, is the biggest asset. She dances like a sunbeam, stopping the show, whenever she gets in motion. Her acute low comedy sense almost twists most of her lines into a laugh. Frank Mclntyre, aside from one genuinely funny song about Sing Sing, manages to carry a comedy role by sheer weight. The rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Apr. 21, 1924 | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

William G. McAdoo. Defeated in Wisconsin, after a victory in Georgia, Mr. McAdoo has still by all odds the biggest group of delegates of any Democrat. It is possible that he will have about half of them. But he would need two-thirds for nomination-and politicians do not see a prospect of the addition. Nevertheless, the McAdoo group's second choice may well be chosen. But who is he? There are many who would like to be that second choice. At least three Senators are suggested for it: Ralston, Robinson, Glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

...Baker is probably the biggest stockholder in the New York Central, although William K. and Harold S. Vanderbilt are still associated with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Banker Baker | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

Last week his efforts to get an Albany paper succeeded in the purchase of the Albany Times-Union. This acquisition gives Mr. Hearst the biggest circulation of any publisher in upstate New York; Rochester, Syracuse and now Albany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Forward, Hearst! | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

...slow" British have invested $200,000,000 in the Wembley Exhibition. London will offer the biggest thing of its kind that the world has ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: An Exhibition | 4/7/1924 | See Source »

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