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...PORTRAITS, REAL AND IMAGINARY-Ernest Boyd-Doran. ($2.00). *Author of Brewster's Millions, published 20 years ago, one of the most popular novels of the period. In it Author McCutcheon employs a plot almost identical to that of Mr. Oppenheim...
...fashioned in plot and jest. rude Tom's Cabin polished up and set to music, is the basis of the narrative. There is considerable Negro harmony and soft-shoe shuffling of eminent excellence. There is a troupe of English dancing girls without which few music shows nowadays are complete. There is a pretty prima donna who can sing and a mildly acceptable cast...
Betty Lee. A song or two that will serve and Hal Skelly and Joe E. Brown (he has a wide mouth) trying hard to squeeze comedy out of commonplaces-these help occasionally. Most of the singing is discouraging and the costumes something less than smart. There is a plot about a youth who boasted he could run and then was matched against a champion. The huge trousers sers of Mr. Brown are easily the most important feature of the entertainment tainment...
...long character study braced with certain small sinews of plot was the author's contribution. He visualized an old man - tyrannical, wealthy, indomitable -the apoplectic patriarch whom the world recognizes as an English gentleman. He led this stubborn ruler into a shady financial transaction to insure the future of a son of his illegitimate child. He contrived to have him caught. He served him with one ast relentless dinner in which he ate sweetbreads, drank brandy, defied the doctor, died...
...nateur René Renoult, Minister of Justice, announced that the Government had taken action against La Liberté for printing untrue reports of a Red plot to seize the city of Amiens. Further and energetic action, he said, would be taken against offenders. The Government was also considering the expulsion of foreign correspondents who have been sending home to their newspapers "lurid reports of revolutionary activities...