Word: sawdusted
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...Barnum's circus was staged in a smelly sawdust arena...
...Half Way Down", a play in one act, supposedly a curtain raiser, proves that at least one Radcliffe soul has found the sawdust path to salvation better than the primrose avenue to disbelief. Ann, a shop girl whose diction approaches Thirty Third Street to retreat to Park Avenue, meets Father Time in the ringed arena of keen dialectic, vide Bruce Barton, and wins by faith alone. "There is a God", she cries, and all the little birds fly home to their nests and old father sun winks at little Johnnie Skunk...
...remainder of this appeal to the faithful really smacks too much of the sawdust trail oratory of the camp meeting revivalist to merit much comment. But nevertheless I can not but wonder if the men I knew who died in France would have been so comforted by the assurance that a temple erected to their memory would lure "thousands of beauty lovers to come and jam its pews in search of the road to righteousness" that to find fault with the plans of suggest a different memorial would constitute a sacrilege. A Poll taken among men before going into battle...
...Monkey Talks. From France a play of circus life came, saw and only partly conquered. The monkey is a man who apes the ape and fools the public in the sawdust ring. So astonishingly authentic are his make-up and his gestures that the play is at once credible. For this all credit to Jacques Lerner, French actor imported for the role...
Sally of the Sawdust...