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...convince his indifferent audience that Mr. Kerr and Miss Bainter are most irretrievably in love through the introduction of 266 amatory forms of address, 33 kisses, and 18 embraces. At the end of the act Mr. Kerr has gone off to marry his Father's choice in a plot to obtain the 500,000 franc bribe and then desert her, while Miss Bainter has gone off to a mysterious Baron "with a car a mile long" who has been writing her tender notes...
...Potter put it into English. O. (Otis) Skinner makes it presentable in Manhattan today. Mr. Skinner wears the same faded regimentals that he sported 19 years ago; he is the same swaggering bon-vivant of a Napoleonic colonel with the old flourishes. The flourishes satisfy, but the plot leaves a stale taste. In a curtain speech after the third act, Mr. Skinner smilingly reveals his intention of reviving the play again in 1946. Actor Skinner will...
...plot was frustrated and some of the ringleaders were arrested. Police are seeking the men higher up. One of the suspects is Roberto Farinacci, former Secretary General of the Fascist Party...
...Chief of the Fascist militia, and built up in that capacity a strong Republican following at Bologna. Reputedly he was shelved when he envisioned himself as the eventual successor of II Duce. Forces allied with him may have been active last week in the World's "mysterious" plot...
Caponsacchi-A clearly defined conflict between virtue and vice; the plot sketched from Browning's "The Ring and The Book" ; happily employing much of the poet's dialogue...