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...rough Riff Robin Hood is the protagonist in "The Desert Song", a tuneful expose of Mohammedan love-technique now on view at the Majestic Theatre. Yelept "The Red Shadow" (rhymes with "go, snow, or know") this brigand leads his turbaned tenors to several well-earned choral triumphs over Post 13 of the Moroccan Legion...
...post-war" theory, derived less from life than from fiction which showed the undergraduate wallowing drunkenly in the backwash of the late conflict, finds in him no protagonist. Neither is he of a mind with octogenarians who state in birthday interviews that the present generation ushers in the dawn of a new and marvelous day. He says merely that "intellectually and socially, we have not yet caught up with our own inventions and discoveries;" and belives that, all things considered, the "matter-of-fact acceptance" of the new world by the undergraduate promises well...
...Fidelity League which opposed the now sovereign Actors' Equity at the time of the actors' strike in 1919. The hard feeling between these organizations, which is only now fading, was rumored to have raised factions in The Players. Mr. Wilson has always been a most ardent Equity protagonist. Any suggestion of schism was dispelled when Mr. Hampden was unanimously elected...
...corporations. From every oil well he sees rising a dour genie, and in every baptismal font he sees swimming a school of vermin. For the business interests U. S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg has been the nervous advocate; for the Church, Bishop Diaz has been the obstreperous protagonist. President Calles has been sending Secretary Kellogg temporizing notes; Bishop Diaz he threw out of Mexico. In the U. S. Bishop Diaz will wait until Mexican Catholics can organize an effective political party and throw out President Calles and his party...
...must acquire "a theology which conserves all the Christian experience of the centuries, utilizes the gains of current philosophy and the sciences, and utters itself in convictions which grip the heart and constrain the conscience of sinner and saint, of educated and illiterate." And: "This seminary has been a protagonist for the freedom of the Christian mind...