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...smoke in the presence of a lady would have been equivalent to an unforgivable slight. . . . The captain of the Queen's Guard at St. James's Palace concluded his daily report with his signed certificate that 'no smoking had taken place in any of the rooms'. . . . The Iron Duke (of Wellington) himself declared: '. . . The practice of smoking by the use of pipes, cigars and cheroots . . . is not only in itself a species of intoxication occasioned by the fumes of tobacco, but undoubtedly occasions drinking and tippling by those who acquire the habit...
...matronly daughter, Peggy. This, the highest paid assemblage ever seen on one legitimate stage, enacts for the fourth time in the U. S. (the first, 1898) the fortunes of those shockingly Bohemian actors and actresses who strutted in famed Sadler's "Wells" during the reign of good Queen Victoria. To the zip-gobbling audiences of this day, the play offers mellow humor and pathos-qualities whose commercial values are doubtful. To the student of the theatre, to the lover of stage personalities, it is irresistable. Dramatist Pinero in Trelawny has created a young playwright-one whose theories and struggles...
...Shoot the Works", the Pi Eta Club's 1927 production, enjoyed a visit yesterday afternoon from several members of the "Queen High" company now playing at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston...
Preparations for the production have been completed. Tomorrow afternoon representatives of the Pathe, International, and Fox News will be on hand at a full dress rehearsal to obtain motion pictures of the show. Invitations have been extended to the members of the "Queen High" and "Castles in the Air" companies to a theatrical tea to be given at the Club this week end in honor of the "Shoot the Works" cast. Invitations have already been sent out to patronesses, and the programs are being prepared...
...exhibitions, leaving the Prime Minister to govern. He does not have to reward Babbits with the use of the Marines; he can make them peers with opposition from none but the House of Lords--a simpler and cheaper process. And Americans are great royalty lovers. They will greet a queen or a crown prince almost as effusively as a woman who swam twenty-five miles in cold water...