Word: telegramming
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...take seduction or leave it alone, who regards adultery as a fine art, not a plaything for children. So he asks him to practice his wiles on the Baroness and if successful, to wire him "cherries are ripe." If feminine demureness prove the winner, the telegram is to read "cherries are sour." Sandor sets about his caddish work, and with La Roquian aplomb, reduces seduction to an absurdity. It is significant that the climax of the plot is reached only as the final curtain falls, presumably either to keep the audience in their seats, or to protect the actors...
...Miss Loos, there are spotty bits of catchy dialogue and even better situation. All in all, however, the subtle lewdness fails to materialize and the promised sophistication degenerates into drivel. There is a preponderance of acidity in the play which would have been expressed only if the other telegram was sent...
...defense of the Rembrandts. Dr. William R. Valentiner, director of the Detroit Museum of Art, who has officially approved hundreds of paintings sold in the U. S., was at work last week on a catalog of Rembrandts owned in the U. S. From Florida he sent a telegram: WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE ENJOYMENT OF ART BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC IF THE GREATEST MASTERPIECES ARE EXPOSED TO SUCH ARBITRARY CRITICISM...
...Tories. Proof in itself of the paper's enterprise was its engagement of celebrated Liberal Lippmann, who will be permitted to write as he pleases, generally when he pleases, under his own signature, much as his volubly independent Harvard classmate Heywood Broun writes for the New York World-Telegram...
...boys, regardless of the uniform they were wearing when the end came. Enemies they may have been on the battlefield, but they were friends in the Yard. It is meet that Harvard in its memorial chapel take cognizance of this aspect above all others. Worcester Telegram...