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Because of her youth, her good looks, her sharp wit, because of the relative triviality of her four larcenies and the fact that she had committed no crime of violence, many officials and citizens declared the penalty was unjustly harsh. Public pity welled...
...between Italy and Britain. Last week he was more than ever satisfied with his Italian domicile. His four former partners-pale and spectacular Clarence Hatry, stolid Albert Edward Tabor, colorless Edmund Daniels and Charles Graham Dixon-stood at the bar of Old Bailey to be sentenced for forgery, to wit: Swindling nearly $10,000,000 from the British public by borrowing money on forged municipal bonds...
...Saki" (the pen-name of H. H. Munro, an Englishman killed in the War) should, and anyone who has read him will do so again without any blurbs from the Vagabond. "Saki" is the entrepreneur between Englishmen and morals and a delighted audience. He is the epitome of sophisticated wit, a judicious mixture of cynicism and sentiment, and charming withal. His good-natured satire falls as lightly on milord and lady as on the foibles of the charwoman next door...
...Cleveland the "Crusaders"-against Prohibition-met, 50 strong, in Parlor B of the Hollenden Hotel. The Crusaders are an organization of wealthy young men dedicated to the "cause of sanity." Commander-in-chief is Fred G. Clark, President of Fred G. Clark ("Hyvis") Oil Co., music writer, wit, comedy player in the Hermit Club's annual frolic. Cried Crusader Clark: "We're not wet, but we are opposed to things as they are today." The Crusaders pledged $50,000 to recruit 100,000 young Clevelanders to work for Temperance as contrasted to Prohibition, planned to organize similar "battalions...
More beauty of face and form was visible one night last week in Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, Calif, than in any other building in the world. Wit too was there but less abundantly. Rogue Song was having its world premiere...