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...songs, so that they take on dramatic quality. In Harlem, she is queen. In Manhattan she stopped the show. The other feature is the chorus of many-tinted Negro girls, most of them well-made, whose hips keep up with vagarious jazz rhythms by going three ways at once. Rang Tang unfortunately starts off with a plot about two dusky Harlemites who fly to Africa for diamonds. Unfortunately, because, although their escapades in the jungle provide opportunity for skits at least a thousand times better than those with which the two comedians are equipped, plot coherence is poison to African...
Soon epithets rang and adjectives cooed, as MM. les Deputés expounded their grand theme: The Sanctity of Motherhood. General conclusion: that the charge of "conspiracy" was only a detestable cloak of subterfuge under which the agents of a debased gendarmerie had ravished from a hungry infant its proper milk. By tens, and finally by hundreds, the Deputies demanded that the Government order Mme. Montard released. Premier Raymond Poincaré, great War President of France, faced an extremely dubious and trying dilemma. Obviously the woman could not be kept in jail; but the Cabinet had lost much of its prestige when...
...Even at Pera† the Diplomatic Corps and foreigners generally decked their establishments, in honor of Kemal. He came, at last, steaming up the Bosporus on a cream white yacht, once the Sultan's. Twelve large and forty small steamers followed. Turkish gunboats blazed salutes. The whole city rang with Kemal's nickname of honor: "Ghazi," "The Victorious...
During the banquet a telephone connected with Manhattan rang; and Chancellor Churchill answered...
Three or four days later--such things are not important with the Gallic police--a squad of gendarmes rang M. Daudet's door bell. M. Daudet's butler intimated that the master was not "at home". The gendarmes bowed and announced that they would wait. And so the "siege" that ended two days ago began. After M. Daudet had received French pastry, champagne, and other life maintaining victuals in great number from his friends, and after daily during the "siege" announcing that to surrender would mean the end of civil liberty, honour, and whatnot, M. Daudet quite naturally surrendered...