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...Virgin Man", and "The Captive" have been found just too low-down for the New York Police Department to countenance. Managers of all three plays violently protest their innocence, and rejoice. Padlocking is better publicity than full page advertisements in every newspaper in New York. "The Drag", which is advertised as "the male captive" was allowed to run only two days in Bridgeport. From all accounts it contains little else but wise cracks on homo-sexuality, and is hardly on a higher level than the folk-literature in certain public places. But these two performances have made "The Drag...
Brushing. "Don't drag the toothbrush from one area to another. The bristles bend and sag and don't do their work."-Dr. H. H. White, Chicago...
...Moscow on the same subject; 4) reports on the activities of Chicago Communists among their comrades in Mexico; and other Reds' emanations. Mr. Kellogg had nothing to prove that the Mexican government took any part in the Red plot. His obiter dicta gave the press an opportunity to drag out war scare headlines and touched off some frenzied speeches in Congress...
...just a girl," beamed Vice President Dawes, on first meeting Marion Nevada Talley, prima donna. Then, taking a long drag at his pipe, he added: "Don't acquire temperament." Miss Talley enjoyed Washington last week; Senator Capper of Kansas escorted her about the city; Senator Reed claimed her for Missouri; Senator Bruce, music lover, rushed up to be introduced; Senate page boys gaped; Mrs. Coolidge went to her concert...
...young composer, Lewis Dodd, lean and sharp as a falcon, is on hand when Florence Churchill, efficient dilettante, comes to drag her cousins off to school in England. Anticipating an interesting seduction, Dodd soon finds himself a successful, well-kept celebrity in England, married to Florence. Not till then does he wake up to Tessa Sanger. Beneath her timely scorn, fearless innocence and sharp wit, her primitive, leaky little heart has been constantly his. All her intensity goes into her acquired conception of honor when he proposes that they run away. She refuses. But Florence cracks under the strain, scouring...