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...Senator entered and soon shook hands with the most important-looking one. Swart Curtis of Kansas is most important because, from his quiet aisle seat in the back row, he leads the majority party. Most-important-looking, a veritable redundancy in statesman-hood with his elephantine frame, florid face and canary waistcoat, is Alabama's Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope...
...Robin Hood theme has been picked up again by the movies. Witness "Rose of the Golden West" and the current Metropolitan attraction, Richard Dix in "The Gay Defender". Be it remarked immediately that they did these things better with the help of Mary Pickford's husband. Certainly there are enough important Latins in Hollywood to keep Mr. Dix, the American of them all, out of slit Spanish trousers and Mexican fandangos. He is pre-eminently a home boy and should be discouraged in any more attempts to hit for Fairbanks. The film as casual amusement is pleasing enough. Thelma Todd...
...Protestant you mean disowning papal obedience; sharing the movement for freedom, education and individual development; public worship in English; the open Bible, we are Protestant. If you mean anti-Catholic, especially in the spirit of the sheet and hood, every man to choose his own church, a complete break with the past, the dilemma between fundamentalism and modernism-if you mean by Protestant what most Protestants seem to mean, we are not Protestant and God. forbid we ever should...
...Their eyes like round sudden stars in the reflection of head- lights, feline debauchees parade on roads at night, killing birds and frightening motorists. Last week near Chillicothe, Ohio, such a fe- line debauchee squatted, yowling and jeering, on a road in front of Mrs. E. C. Hood who was driving her car. Mrs. Hood, startled by the sparkling eyes, drove her car over the side of a bridge, injuring herself, demolishing...
...outdoor opera. This year there were record-breaking receipts despite the most wretched weather conditions encountered since 1919. Total attendance was over a half million. The repertory consisted of one opera (Tales of Hoffman) often included in the New York Metropolitan repertory and the following light operas: Robin Hood, Princess Pat, Sari, Song of the Flame, Red Mill, Rose Marie, The Mikado, The Dollar Princess, Katinka...