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...mooted question of who is to bury the last man on earth has alison more forcibly than ever. And the American Bankers' Association is wondering whether "America First" may not in the end result in America last--and unburied. Mr. Lamont in his address before the assembly compares the well-worn phrase with one almost more worn and hitherto more sinister "Deutschland Uber Alles...
...Shubert: a revival of the famous "Chocolate Soldier" completely revamped, reset, and brought up to date with the usual Shubert thoroughness. The constant outcroppings of well-worn musical comedy tricks leads one to suspect considerable alteration from the original. There is mention of flappers as well as of other things quite unknown "when Hector was a lad", and the stage business is straight from Broadway. Indeed, it offered a strange contrast of methods to find the modified recitative of the original score standing side by side with stage capers of the Fred Stone school. Consequently, only the sureness and restraint...
...This move apparently marks the solidification of opposition to Samuel Gompers, who for thirty-nine years has held the office now coveted by Mr. Lewis. Labor's "grand old man", however, has declined to give up without a struggle. His supporters have resurrected the well-worn charge of a "slush fund", and are plying their trade with all the gusto of professional politicians. There will be "great doin's" in Denver before long. Factional strife was never so ominous as at present. Labor has had pretty much its own way of late years; one begins to wonder whether the discordant...
...Efren Zimbalist, which is now playing at the Majestic Theatre, is on the whole a pleasing musical comedy, although the first act is disappointing on account of the conventional character of its matrimonial entanglements. The second act contains however some agreeable surprises in the original treatment given to well-worn situations, and while true to type, certain complications are never unsnarled, the main issue is satisfactorily disposed of. Even in the first act, the "Chinese Fantasy" lends a certain exotic illusion to a banale situation. The singing and dancing of Ethelind Terry, the acting of Hal Forde, and the specialty...
...other Lampoon burlesques. As to the material itself, although no one is likely to find here a newly uncovered vein of humor, no one with preconceived opinions as to what the Lampoon may be expected to offer, will be disappointed. Some clever drawing, some clever writing, faithful adherence to well-worn themes for jesting all these are found in their due proportions. Best of all these is the imagination so often lacking and wished for in other college writing and other college interests. Quite the most delightful features, to one reader at least, are the brief paragraphs sandwiched...