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...think it extraordinary," said the ex-Kaiser with a comic grimace, "that people always make stories about junkers who wish to carry off the Crown Prince by boat or airplane...
Died. Oliver G. Dickman, comic artist (who drew The Life of Reilly in The New York Evening World), in St. Louis, suicide by asphyxiation, on the eve of his wedding to Miss Viola Schubert of St. Louis...
Died. Sir H. T. Smart, Bart., 70, comic opera and vaudeville actor, known professionally as Charles Archer, at Los Angeles. Preferring the life of an actor to that of a baronet, he came to the U. S. in his youth and went West with the first Pinafore company...
...Davis. He has observed life well. He writes of it truly. Like all playwrights, Mr. Davis never quite knows just how his public will react to a play. Will they be conscious of the fundamental tragedy of Home Fires or will they, as in Icebound, find more of the comic than the tragic and go away feeling warmly amused ? It is hard to tell. Personally, I have seldom laughed so hard in any theatre as over a scene in which two youngsters seated on a front porch discuss eugenics. What a chance there was for burlesque-and how truly, safely...
...opportunity of playing on the pecularities of adolescence Mr. Tarkington has created a hero with his brain just a trifle off center. Thus the youth, physically and financially at the highly marriageable state of 21, is able to engage in a serious love affair which has all the comic possibilities of Willie Baxter. For those whose passion is eugenics such a creation, with the implied probability of its recreation in a young generation of Tweedle-Castleburys, may seem a trifle inconsidered. Among the first night audience none thus disturbed could be discerned...