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There can be little question of the morality of the American stage. John Roach Straton, Charles Sumner and the other "reformers" of this wicked world have precluded the survival of any element of general reputability in our amusements. Their activities have put SIN in the headlines and they find themselves powerless to take...
...American nation, the following more or less popular plays: Rain, The Lullaby, Windows, Red Light Annie, Tarnish, The Dancers, Seventh Heaven, Chains, White Desert, A Lesson in Love, Casanova, The Crooked Square, Nobody's Business, The Shame Woman. All are at present discussing across New York footlights some element of sexual immorality...
...reappearance of Alfred Quackenbush as quarterback of the Middle-bury football team will add an element of uncertainty to the football game this afternoon. Quackenbush has a disconcerting ability at drop-kicking which may have been lost sight of during his absence from Middlebury last year. In 1921 his drop-kicking was the big factor in winning the Vermont State champion ship of that year. Against Vermont he kicked two field goals, giving his team a score of 6-0 and in the Norwich game his drop kick accounted for Middlebury's 3-0 victory...
...second place Mr. O'Brien implies that not only has there been much roughness after the games but that this roughness should be punishable by arrest. For the police can check unruliness only by arrest. As a matter of fact the objectionable element has in the past made itself objectionable more by voice than by "unnecessary roughness"-a case for ushers rather than for police. Only on one or two occasions has the exodus of spectators been other than unusually orderly. And for those exceptional cases public opinion voiced in the Boston newspapers has a more beneficial effect than arrests...
Even by the conservative financial element to whom Hearst papers are usually anathema, the active part taken by these journals (in Manhattan) in running down bucketshops has been very generally commended. With most New York papers, the bucketshops (TIME, June 18) furnished merely a nine days' wonder. But the Hearst papers refused to abandon the trail-they forced public officials to take action on several occasions, were fearless in revealing the curious political alliances which some of the most notorious bucketshops (especially E. M. Fuller & Co.) possessed. If any single papers deserve public recognition for compelling the exposure...