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...last act gives a party at which there is a fire-eating magician. Also, in the last act, there is the San Francisco earthquake and fire. The plot deals with dope-peddling; Slippery Jim (Robert Bentley) is the chief dope-peddler; he leaves the racket and marries a pure, sweet girl. Wong is killed in the earthquake...
Ruth Shepley plays the sweet girl whom Slippery marries; and theatre-goers with good memories recall The Boomerang wherein Ruth Shepley played another such, spraining her ankle nightly for the furtherance of romance...
...barbaric methods of establishing title. If the victors really need and deserve a tangible reward for their triumph, well and good but let no man interfere with their efforts to lay hands upon it. If on the other had a majority hold that victory is but an abstraction more sweet because of its very lack of material symbols, let the first man who throws his weight against an upright suffer the consequences of an outraged public opinion. A spineless vacillation and willingness to let circumstances rule is daily proving insufficient. Were a hypothetical straw vote to be taken...
That great Democratic vote-getter David Ignatius Walsh, Wet Catholic, retained his Senatorial Seat from Massachusetts. Also, in New York, Democratic Dr. Royal S. Copeland survived. But in New Jersey, Wet Democratic Edward I. Edwards fell before mild-faced Hamilton F. Kean. In Montana, bitter was the battle and sweet the victory for famed radical Democrat Burton K. Wheeler. But in West Virginia bitter was the battle and bitter the defeat of War Hero M. M. Neely by Republican Henry D. Hatfield...
...Sullivan, meanwhile, was a serious-minded music student for all his Irish-Italian blood and romantic ancestry: his grandfather was favorite in Napoleon's body guard at St. Helena, and had the grim duty of protecting the dead Little Corporal's heart from voracious rats. But Arthur was a sweet-faced choirboy, beloved mascot of his father's band, successful candidate for a Leipzig Mendelssohn scholarship. Returned to London, he wrote cantatas, oratorios, 56 hymns (among them Onward Christian Soldiers), and also popular lyrics (The Lost Chord), and operetta-burlesque (Cox and Box). Victoria smiled on him, the masses adored...