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...must to all men--in the phraseology of "Time"--comes the opera season to the denizens of Greater Boston. It is a signal for many time honored customs: for Willa Jerdone and Betty Alden, experts on Society, to go quite, quite berserk in descriptions of what is being worn in the foyer; for the illustrators of department store advertisements to draw countless long necked and apparently under-nourished grande dames; for H. T. P. to polish off some terse enigmatic quips surmounted by the conventional H. T. P. headlines; for music stores to haul out dusty liberties; for discussions...
...desire for disreputable indulgence is not implied in a vote for a repeal. This, with the exertion of the newspapers might very well blow the Prohibition question into enough of a bugaboo to arouse voters; for it is seen that even the loosely iconoclastic like Mencken who go berserk on the mention of liquor and moral censorship, can attract audiences until their hearers grow tired with the yelling on these questions that never before have been of political importance...
...Club. Says Mile, Soughvitz: "It thrilled me through and through and many times I rose from my seat in cheers. When I came to the part where he tells her that he meet leave her forever because after all he has another wife in San Diego I went completely berserk. Mere words cannot describe my enthusiasm. I recommend it heartily to all those desiring a good clean story." It is generally agreed that this makes the little Soughwitz girl...
Erik Huneker (now in his 30's) is of quieter disposition. He has been connected with the musical world mainly through publicity departments, at one time working for the Metropolitan Opera Company. No berserk lion, he will nevertheless have ample opportunity to struggle with a big task. It is the purpose of Opera Comique, Inc., so named in files of proposed corporations in Albany, to raise $6,800,000 by the sale of preferred and common stock. Special charter subscribers who take $4,000 worth of preferred will receive in perpetuity two seats to weekly performances. Charter subscribers...
Where Anthony Comstock was a berserk lion of purity, Mr. Sumner dislikes being thought of as a reformer. His smile and forbearance are of the efficient Y. M. C. A. type. With affability, not anger, does he discountenance the evildoer. In the performance of his duties, he avoids "scenes" by working hand in glove with Manhattan's district attorney, at present, one Joab H. Banton, whose definition of art is "the beautiful as opposed to the realistic," who regards certain plays of Sophocles as indecent, who says, "My God, if Christianity has not advanced us beyond the stage...