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Free For All is a tuneful musicomedy presented by smart Producers Schwab & Mandel (Good News, America's Sweet-heart), with a libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II and Laurence Schwab, melodies by Richard A. Whiting. There is no chorus. As a result, the uninterrupted libretto may pall if you think about it too much, but there is good music, a little lively dancing and a dozen pleasant faces...
...Russkoye Ustye began to pall after a time. Zenzinov had been given permission to move around anywhere in the district. Again with the idea of eventual escape, he set out to Verkhoyansk, "the pole of cold." This village was many miles to the south but set in a basin where cold air settles and few winds blow. Zenzinov one day in January, 1913 noted a temperature of 95.4° below Zero. In Verkhoyansk, says he, if "you take a glass of water and dash it high into the air, the liquid will come down in the form of ringing crystals...
Walker. The admission of Professor Moley's testimony following the ominous conference between Referee Seabury and Governor Roosevelt cast a pall over Tammany Hall. Nor was the pall entirely dissipated by Governor Roosevelt's dismissal of ouster proceedings against Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker urged by the City Affairs Committee (TIME, May 4 et ante). The move was expected by most observers in view of the impending investigation of the entire municipal administration by a legislative committee under Referee Seabury (TIME, April 6). Tammany wanted a more ornamental exoneration of the playboy Mayor than it found...
...first dance. A little above herself in her fine clothes, a little sentimental when the orchestra strikes up a popular song of years past, but gorgeously enjoying herself. The Vagabond harks back to the days when he wandered into a cafe where lovely women rose smiling out of a pall of tobacco smoke, and beer came in litre stone mugs. He would sit by the hour at a table as the lovely women and the little stone mugs came and went listening to an orchestra somewhere in the distance playing "Tales From A Vienna Woods," in such a fashion that...
...voyaging again, but in Boston there is a substitute. It is inadequate to be sure, but it is a very pleasant substitute all the same. At the "Pops" there is no beer in litre stone mugs, and there are few lovely women to rise smiling out of a pall of blue tobacco smoke. But in compensation, the orchestra plays Strauss as Strauss is seldom played. It plays other things also to stir the elemental passions of the Vagabond. Handel, Ravel, Victor Herbert and all the others that make music most palatable to the laymen. And a final inducement...