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...director, Edward Massey, has handled his subject with masterly strokes. The plot of the Shakespearian comedy is kept, with most of the characters, and some of the lines; but Mr. Massey has very artfully interpolated musical numbers, with an agile dancing chorus, to the accompaniment of a jazz band; and has interspersed the whole with modern witty dialogue. The result is an entertainment that is extremely amusing...
General Don Valerian Weylery Nicolau, Marquis of Teneriffe and Duke of Rubi, was acquitted last week by a court-martial in Madrid of the charge (TIME, July 5), that he fomented a plot last summer to seize the Government. Citizens of the U. S. know that "Butcher" Weyler, 88, has not yet lived down the odium of his bloodthirsty governorship of Cuba (1896-97) - a direct and major cause of the Spanish-American War. From blood, oppression, graft, he wrung a fortune now one of the largest in Spain...
From Paris last week came despatches relating a plot among artists and literati to offset the continental pestilence of beauty contests. They planned, as counter scourge, an ugliness contest, with awards. "Beauty fades," said the plotters, "but ugliness remains...
...affirmative sister is funnier than the negative one: and she is also less musically inclined. Both girls are equally lacking in any brains if the plot of a play corresponds to a girl's mental equipment...
...critical may object to "Pickwick" because it has no plot--but it has as much plot as a revue and ten times the humor. Moreover, the imposing array of Wardles, Wellers, and Dickensonian whatnots, compensate for any lack of structure. "The Pickwick Papers" had no definite plot; to have invented one for its dramatic counterpart would have been to lose much of the spirit of the original...