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Good Old Days. When this play was produced for try-out in Chicago under the title " Light Wines and Beers, the managers installed a brass railed bar in the theatre lobby. From these facts it may be inferred that the comedy of the play is largely alcoholic. Aaron Hoffman is the author; George Bickel and Charles Winninger the funny...
William McFee, novelist: "The Cunard-Anchor steamship Tuscania, which has just sailed for the Mediterranean, is the only trans-Atlantic liner with a bookshop aboard. Captain David W. Bone, who wrote The Brass-bounder, and other books, commands this ship, and I, who wrote Command, Casuals of the Sea, and so on, am proprietor of her unique 'traveling Parnassus...
...need to use the schools for propaganda. The case would prove itself. But when they are asked to teach, not the truth about war, but the theoretical wrongfulness of a certain use of war, they are diverted from their purpose and debased, and all to no purpose. A brass band and bronze buttons outweigh volumes of that kind of exhortation...
...right to be the star in his own show is undeniable. He waited with approved technique to make his impressive entrance after the chorus had done admiring the new house. A fanfare of bugles was a most fitting announcement of this "greatest" of mayors and most appropriate was the brass-buttoned band of policemen playing "Hall to the chief". His opening speech so stirred the Police Glee Club that they replied with "He's a Jolly Good Fellow", and fired the Municipal Band with such civic pride that they blared out a march, only to clash with the Firemen...
...brass band will lead more than 300 fathers and sons of 1896, 1899, 1901, and 1902 in a procession to Soldiers Field today. Beginning with a reunion at 12 o'clock at the Newell boat house, the festivities will continue through the Princeton baseball game, the fathers and sons being joined by mothers, daughters, and other guests at 4 o'clock at the game...