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...thank you! I could not possibly sing for so ill-bred...
Andre Chariot's Revue of 1924. There is one insurmountable advantage which English musical comedians and comediennes have over their American prototypes. They are all somehow bred to the idea that they are to marry royalty; they act the part. Conversely, there is an equal advantage our own players have over the English. American comedians, ingenues and prima donnas generally originate in the carefree substrata of society. They retain a certain impudent irresistible gaminerie...
...both the American and German armies, and underwent the agonies of such a sardonic situation. ''They might be killing each other," she would say, with a sudden look of sorrow on her merry face. One son went to horrible doom in a sunken German submarine. These emotional pangs have bred in her a great pity and tenderness for soldiers of all races. It is this which has made her devote herself to the American Legion, for whose benefit she sings constantly...
...that the serum be saved for mankind. Spahlinger has already spent his entire fortune of $500,000 in the work, and Sir Stanley Birkin gave $100,000. Spahlinger refuses to exploit the treatment commercially. His serum is obtained from inoculated horses by an expensive process, 50 of the best-bred dark Irish horses (costing $400 each) being required for its production. Even with the new support, it will take two years more to prepare the serum for public use. It is not a quick cure, but takes a year or more in advanced cases...
...answer to the public is that journalism has never been more free from falsehood and inaccuracy than at present. His answer to those who lament "the great editors are gone " is that we are well rid of them-they bred partisanship, they even " precipitated the Civil...