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Twenty million dollars as a starter that is what the American Federation of Labor proposes to spend in its fight against what it considers a capitalistic plot to further the "open shop." If its only opponents were the capitalists and employers this sum might be sufficient, but unless the Federation changes its beliefs it is likely that public opinion will be lined up with its opponents; and no amount of money can change that. Mr. Bohm, who is the secretary of the Central Federated Union, sees in the widespread unemployment the direct result of a conspiracy to force labor...
History records few deaths more agonizing, few martyrdoms more prolonged. In all the slow weeks there was no evidence of weakening, no abatement of the first resolve. Now that it is all ended and he lies with former comrades in the "Republican Plot," the world may well stand in spirit as those British soldiers stood...
...material of the plot is only too familiar; it is too laboriously and unconvincingly developed to send that creepy sensation up the collective spines of the audience. The play takes a prologue and one uninteresting act to get under way; but the last two acts have at least the virtue of holding fast one's attention. The action depends on the villainous Frank Devereaux's efforts to seduce innocent women and the resultant triangle of false suspicion, threats, and "evidence." In a struggle for his revolver, Devereaux is shot by "Lafe" Regan, whose wife is in the next room...
...swiftly moving plot"--thus does the publicity writer characterize Miss Hartley's novel. He shows in his choice of words a restraint quite unnatural to publicity writers. We finished the volume some hours ago, but it is no exaggeration to say that it has taken us since then to arrive, after a breathless pursuit of Anne through her illogical adventures, at the point at which the authoress leaves...
...annual visit to Boston on Monday night. And with a few exceptions, the 1920 edition contains the same manner of entertainment as its 13 predecessors; the general standard has been maintained in most of the elements of the piece. Of course there is no pretense at a plot, but then one does not attend the Follies with the expectation of finding one. The principal thing is the chorus, and the chorus is "there" in more ways than...