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...Great Adventure. Reginald Pole a Western actor, revives Arnold Bennett's play full of infinitesimal subtleties for the infinite satisfaction of folk who like Arnold Bennett on the stage. An artist who would be known to the world by his work only, changes places with his valet. The valet dies suddenly. The artist goes on painting, marries a bourgeois little widow. Their life is disturbed when the artist is rediscovered by professional collectors. The problem of the play is to make the wife realize that the man she married for a butler is really an artist...
...Ambassador Herrick's valet was hurt opening an infernal package sent by Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers...
...Mexico City, in Italy and South America, thousands clamored that a Red-fearing U. S. had blindfolded the goddess of Justice to get rid of two Italians. Bombs were tossed at U. S. embassies with a casual malice. One autumn day in Paris in 1921, Ambassador Herrick's valet opened the morning's mail. "Bang!" went a nefarious machine. He was wounded. Many a man- Remain Rolland, Fritz Kreisler, Professor Einstein, Count von Bernstorff, H. L. Mencken, Eugene V. Debs-demanded a new trial for the fish peddler and the factory worker...
Died. Major Arthur Brooks, 66, Negro valet to Presidents Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, messenger toten Secretaries of War, veteran of the Spanish-American War; in Washington, D. C., of heart failure after more than two years' illness...
...what men have tacitly agreed shall be the truth." So commented a recent critic, and doubtless the scribe's Midas-fingers do convert much tinsel into gold. Yet, occasionally, there is no need for alchemy. James Amps, for many years closely associated with Theodore Roosevelt as butler, valet, "head-man," recently in Collier's sketched an intimate portrait of the Colonel's last days. The President had been a jovial man. He would tell a story of how he had loaned $200 to a "Rough Rider" friend to pay a lawyer for his defense after killing someone...