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...Colonel Coolidge otherwise signalized complete recovery from his late illness by climbing out upon the roof of a shed and fitting a pane of glass to the window of the room occupied by President and Mrs. Coolidge...
...spent in the park while the man who had first wooed her from the Malayan jungle, wrung his hands in distress. Then one morning she left the park to visit a boys' school. The master spied her, called gendarmes. She fled into a lavatory, jumped out of a window, but the gendarmes pursued her with bullets and she died in a ditch. The leopard hunter who had brought her to the Paris Zoo, looked at her body and wept...
...French Governor of Martinique, going home on vacation, was shot five times through the window of the steamer's salon before the ship sailed from Port de France. The Governor was critically wounded. The would-be assassin surrendered, said he wished to kill the Governor because his own father had been killed in May in an election riot which the Governor had failed to prevent...
...Story. As Tristram Wing passed the vicarage window he was distinctly nauseated. Mrs. Orpin and the two females he could hear buzzing with her were like three fat blow-flies scavenging in the middle of a road. Their morsel was the subject of the Rev. Mr. Orpin's note, which Wing had come to answer. It was his wife, Brenda, upon one of whose actions a skulking poacher had chanced to spy. During the interview, Wing mentioned his nausea and damned the whole gabbling village...
This play is a stock importation from the Paris show-window. Possibly a trifle more complicated since the lady is married to one man, flirting with a second and in love with a third. The fact that the third is the son of the first by an earlier marriage accounts for the title ? if anything can account for so fearful a title. Why they did not rest in the Parisian name, Mile. Mama, is not known. Edwin Nicander and Kenneth MacKenna assist competently. The net result is a fair farce, fairly well done...