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...dances: almost all of them competently, some well--at least one; Edward Allen, in a Buster West sort of tumble, superbly. At the rise of the curtain the play achieves a headlong velocity which it strives to keep up all evening for the most part with good success. This swift tempo is largely due to the chorus, the "Twelve Judy Joyous Joy Walkers", very rightly headlined. Almost everyone of the dozen, besides doing splits, turning cartwheels, and kicking head-high, does a specialty of some sort. Together they frisk and float about the stage with a joyful zest and verve...
...this group there is the ferment of evil. In the path of each little insignificant wrong, punishment subtly folows sin. Nemesis pursues Man--Oedipus, Christian Wahnschaffe--, Man, who must act and yet knows not how, lost in a world in which ignorance is no excuse for criminality. Destruction is swift cutting down even the most innocent; the entire group is brought to the abyss of ruin, into which Wassermann has formerly not disdained to hurl them...
Meat Pact. The so-called "Argentine meat war" between the principal importing firms in England ended last week with a gentleman's agreement between Swift & Co., Armour & Co.; and the English firm of Vestey Brothers. To each concern was apportioned an agreed percentage of the business to be done. At present the only firms of consequence who are outside this agreement are the Smithfield and Argentine Meat Co. and its satellites. Britons, who dislike Argentine meat anyway, were not cheered by the prospect of having to pay more for it now that the price war is over...
...Significance of this swift fantasy may be partly understood from the fact that it quickly sold into 58 editions last summer abroad. Only one side of a tremendous issue is represented, and that in light journalistic burlesque. As literature the book is only the skeleton for a monster social satire with a few lines of horseplay, suggestions for ironic masterstrokes, sketched in. As the Finance Minister is explaining his aspect of the law, his tongue gets caught in his false teeth. When the law is passed, Christian deputies rush, to make market speculations through their brokers, named Cohn, Kuhn, Kohen...
...death of political satire presents an occasion for truly national mourning. The decease is not recent; one hardly knows when to record the unhappy end of the art of Dean Swift. That it is dead, however, and that it has left the political arena in this country a sterile waste land compared to what it was in its prime, is hardly to be denied...