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...smash-finish of the play brings on Lindbergh Number Two, played by M. Pierre Tristan, who never realized that he resembled the Colonel until a Paris mob recently descended upon him (TIME, Oct. 1) and bore him shoulder high, under the impression that the real Lindbergh had slipped back to Paris...
Naturally this mob scene, including the original mobee, was shrewdly introduced by Playwright Guitry as his final, terrific curtain scene...
This afternoon the Vagabond finds himself with no choice but to follow the crowd to the Union to watch the turn of the tide reflect on the grid-graph. Lesser considerations must stand aside as the backs go tearing by. Rarely does the Vagabond feel the urge of mob psychology, that inexplicable longing to go and do likewise, but stirring considerations like those afoot today whirl him willy-nilly to the Union. In connection with this subject the Vagabond finds that there are some interesting lectures which he recommends...
...that, "There is basis for a science in government and politics," beginning with the observation that in an emergency in every country of the world a strong man can seize power. The method is dictatorship and an organized minority. "The Bolshevik, minority," as Steffins said, "waiting amid the first mob democracy in Petrograd, waited for its splitting into minorities, and seized power at the psychological moment." Lenin stated in defense of that course of action, during an interview with Steffens, "It will be more significant in history if we try out the Marxian system than if we made a successful...
...such moments policemen should be calm. One of the Pons policemen, said to be a relative of Emile Combes, lost his head utterly. Drawing his revolver he trained it on the clerical iconoclast with the sledge hammer, pulled trigger, shot the youth dead. Cooler policemen rounded up the tattered mob men and then discovered to their horror that they were disguised Royalist followers of famed Leon Daudet, son of the great novelist Alphonse Daudet, stubborn and wrongheaded champion of Roman Catholicism and the Royal House of France. The Pope has excommunicated Leon Daudet and his followers (TIME, April 9). Their...