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...repaid. Unfortunately, we encourage them to look upon themselves as gifted with prophesy beyond other mortals, and incessantly invite them to make after-dinner speeches about the future. They can scarcely be expected to arise, and say: "Mr. Toastmaster, I think that business is going to the devil, that my bank has quite a few very poor accounts, and that some of you gentlemen here present will find yourselves in very hot water inside the next year." Such sentiments, however heroically sincere, would curdle the postprandial ice cream. About all the banker, considering his position, can well say is, that...
Died. Marie Corelli, 60, at Stratford-on-Avon; author of best sellers for 40 years: The Sorrows of Satan, The Murder of Delicia, Problem of a Wicked Soul, God's Good Man, The Devil's Motor, The Secret Power, etc., etc. She was of mixed Italian and Scotch Highland blood, was adopted in infancy by Charles Mackay, famed song writer, who afterwards sent her to a French convent to be educated. Queen Victoria admired her work; Tennyson wrote her a letter of encouragement...
Those who feel Summer coming on will find satisfaction in Stepping Stones, Runnin' Wild, Music Box Revue, Poppy, Kid Boots, Mary Jane McKane, Ziegfeld Follies, Chariot's Revue, Swept Little Devil, Vogues...
...Strangers from Nowhere. They might as well return from the place whence they came. The author, Myron C. Fagan, seems to have turned Devil's advocate, for no reason at all. He summons Mephistopheles to earth, for the purpose of sending an erring wife back to her struggling husband, and of reproving characters whenever they speak unkindly of their Maker. At times the play sounds like Faust being run backwards. It is simply propaganda for the author's private views on practically everything. Fritz Lieber in the leading role is enamored of his interminable speeches...
...musical comedy complex can be fostered by feasting on Poppy, Stepping Stones, Music Box Revue, Ziegfeld Follies, Mary Jane McKane, Runnin' Wild, Chariot's Revue, Kid Boots, Sweet Little Devil...