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Under the New President. Abruptly, the scene shifts from the Golden Gate to the hills of Vermont. Reporters in automobiles rushing over country roads; a knock at the door of a white farmhouse in the little hamlet of Plymouth; oil lamps lit, dispelling the darkness; telegrams read by their glow; a brief statement of mourning; an oath of office taken at dawn and the next chapter is inaugurated...
...Ripping, old dear", if you are an Englishman, or "It's a knock-out, kid", if you are a heathen American, will be your verdict for "So This is London" which is being presented this week at the St. James Theatre. You will certainly agree that The Boston Stock Company, in choosing this play of Arthur Goodrich, has revived a spirited middle-class comedy of the better sort...
Roaring Rails is virtually a flashback. It returns to the days when all that was necessary for a vast success was a good train wreck and a knock-down-drag-out fight (in which the villain was knocked and dragged). There was also a girl and, usually, a dynamite job under the canyon bridge. Roaring Rails has all of these plus a small section of the World War. The hero is a locomotive engineer. People who are burdened with deep intelligence are cautioned not to ride behind...
...time this daguerreotype was taken, and the courage of boys was tested by fisticuffs with one an other. . . . Our two elder brothers, long since dead, used to egg us on to a fight by putting a chip on one or the other's shoulder and daring the other to knock it off. This was always promptly done and a combat followed...
...asked if Langford could have whipped Champion Dempsey.) "Ho, Ho! Dempsey wouldn't have lasted any time. Made to order for Sam-poor Sam. Ah, gee, what a great fighter Now about . . . Firpo. I'll surely beat him. . . . Just let that bird come and I'll knock him back fast enough. Hitting? Say, I know he can hit. . . . Any clodhopper is likely to beat you. ... I may win in a round." Firpo: "My plan-my big plan-is to attack Wills' body. I do not think the man lives who can stand my blows to heart...