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Trini snapped her fingers and stamped her feet in the second scene, but though she was the out-standing woman of the piece, she wasn't allowed either to snap or stamp again and therefore became a bit boring. Her Hawaiian dance was the next best thing. Lou Holtz accompanied a Jolsonized monologue with two strings of his take-down guitar, but most of his jokes were old and a bit off-color. It seems odd that a black face and spoken song make a presentable imitation of Jolson. Kitty Doner's feet were in excellent form, and Jack Pearl...
...bounds of reason. And therein the Commission has found the catch. While in every crisis consumers have blamed the retailers, retailers have blamed the railroads, and everyone has blamed the miners, who of course must have been perched in Luxury's lap, wholesaler after wholesaler was pocketing his "bit" on the same ton of coal. In their "banner year", indeed, of 1920 each wholesaler who did not handle shipments himself and therefore was merely speculating made an average profit of 15 cents per ton--a return of about fifty-five per cent, on capital invested. If this profit had been...
...this glorious fashion did Mr. Withersq, whose uncle Bert had died and left him a good bit, set out to go into society, with his love Lelia. The dashing lady was "a fair rose of Briton, rather false hair like we see advertised, her somewhat perfect nose would scarce be noticed to have been turned up, owing to sleeping on her stomach". At the same time "she was just a lowborn girl, but none could beat her at playing the piano". And Mr. Withersq is no piker. He crashes right into a Bohemian festival the first night out, visits...
...author's handling of character and conversation is conspicuously fine. A bit: "There are two ways for a girl to get a fur coat, and one of them is to buy it. Burns Mantle: " Simple, direct and honest...
...graduated from the University of Chicago, has a brother who is a prominent Middle Western banker. Van Vechten started life as a musical critic. He has also been a dramatic critic. Perhaps he would now like to be known as a critic of life?or perhaps that is a bit too serious for him. Perhaps he will tell you that life to him is merely a grotesque and occasionally beautiful picture at which he likes to look and sneer in a perfectly gentlemanly manner...