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...that the door in question was distinguished from other doors on the corridor by the words "Do Not Disturb" you will realize, if you have not already learned it from the masthead, that this piece is an adaptation of "The Sign On the Door," a melodrama that has been aliment for road-shows for a decade or two. It is a problem play, the chief problem for skeptical spectators being whether or not the door of an ordinary hotel-apartment can be locked from the outside so that the person inside cannot get out. Good and Evil, shut up there...
...alcoholism." Head of the "temperance" movement is Dr. Leon Douarch. Said he, last week: "We attempt no defense of hare liquor, but wine containing 10% of alcohol moderately and conservatively consumed, particularly at mealtime, can have no noxious effects In addition to being a stimulant, it is an excellent aliment for the manual as well as the intellectua worker...
Pressmen could get no aliment from these reported phone-calls and telegrams; but when, next day, a number of Chinamen were shot down, singly, and for no apparent reason, in widely separated parts of the U. S., typewriters stuttered, and a frightening word began to boom in the headlines of even the conservative papers: TONG...
There are certain things one does not talk about at the luncheon table. A detailed description of personal diseases, for instance, however arresting the symptoms, rarely furnishes appetizing aliment for conversation; revelations of exotic fissures or cavities in the teeth (illustrated) often fail to elicit applause; while a discussion of loathsome and fatal afflictions of the skin, together with an account of the sufferer's pangs and an outline of the methods used to relieve same constitutes a type of data even less acceptable to the fastidious...