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...relieve Charlotte of her stock of money. The selectmen arose finally in righteous indignation. Charlotte now has a race track and keeps the money in the town. The races are not your rustic anti-Belmont flascos either. With a whip and a blanket for reward and the town on deck to stand by the local steeds, races are keen and the time--enjoyed...
...play is set on a tugboat with Miss Arnold playing the cook's worthy wife. One of the deck hands is a shy, sensitive youth who falls in love with her. She educates him a bit and packs him off to the safety of dry land and a small town. Similarity to the plot of Candida was noted. The young man was played adroitly by Rex Cherryman, newcomer...
Draped in the flowing garments of old India, with a pink muslim toga, which he called "The Robe of Light," looped up on his left shoul der and fastened there with a jeweled pin, an ancient Buddhist priest trod the deck of an ocean liner in New York Harbor. At his feet sa a throng of disciples, catching words of wisdom and blessednes as they fell. Crowding closer cam newspaper reporters, to whom tn ancient one declared that his name was Avagarika Hewarritaina Dharmapala, the central portion of which meant "wanderer," which was what he liked best to be called...
...Joan, thirty-one, brag, commerce, Earl of Coventry, lansquenet, ecarte, cribbage, five & ten, faro rouge et noir, matrimony, cuchre, poker or bluff, reversi, connexions, speculation, snip snap snore 'em, Boston, catch the ten, lift smoke, lotto, chess, backgammon, draughts, hazard, dominoes, cricket, billiards, tennis, golf, horse racing, cocking, twenty deck, poker, archery...
...garden, playing poker--an unctuous card-sharping deacon, an Italian escaped convict, a thug, and a young hobo, who has had a conventional background. As the freight pulls out of a middle Western town, a girl disguised as a boy hops it. The crowd, not deceived, cuts the deck for her. The deacon wins. Smash goes the lantern. A shot, and a couple leap from...