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...theses of the Executive Committee of the Communist International in Moscow on the same subject; 4) reports on the activities of Chicago Communists among their comrades in Mexico; and other Reds' emanations. Mr. Kellogg had nothing to prove that the Mexican government took any part in the Red plot. His obiter dicta gave the press an opportunity to drag out war scare headlines and touched off some frenzied speeches in Congress...
...footed comedians, through the blonde-chorused extravaganza with its endless array of stars, to the so-called "intimate" type, the last named is usually more dependable. Some pleasant tunes, a voice or two, a bit of fun, and a few good dancers, strung together on a thread of a plot, can fill an evening very happily. If the plot is stretched to an extreme fineness, almost all individuality removed from the music, and the good voice or two done away with, very little seems to remain. Yet on such a frail basis is built "Judy", which came to the Hollis...
...Judy" is the most intimate of intimate musical comedies, the last word in informality. For a large part of the play, plot is disregarded, and everyone on the stage proceeds to have a good time. So does everyone in the audience. There is no attempt made at ostentation--absolute lack of fuss or pretense of any kind is one of the show's chief charms We are all so accustomed to the professional air in musical comedy, where the audience is patronized and made to feel it will get its money's worth and no more, that the unstudied informality...
Mere mention that a song called "Cinderella" occurs in the first act, will explain the plot sufficiently. "Wear Your Sunday Smile" and the title song "Judy", pleasant and innocuous, are the songs sold at the door. As for the cast, Patti Harrold, dainty and unstudied, makes a charming heroine; Robert Armstrong, obviously out of place in musical comedy, a not-so-good hero. George Meeker, Edward Allen, and Frank Beaston, as Tom, Dick, and Harry, furnish the bulk of the humor, which depends more on their own antics than the rather weak book. Mr. Beaston especially stands...
...stealing timidly over the moor, her path lighted by a single torch, to test the superstition that thus a maiden may catch a magical glimpse of her future husband. The torchlight falls upon the messenger. He, then, is the man. But the royal will is stern. So runs the plot of the opera. The music, more important to the success of the whole, is being composed by Joseph Deems Taylor...