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...more recently he was Mayor of the Chinese settlement at Shanghai. Last week he quietly put forward the Nationalist claims for revision of China's "unequal treaties" with the Powers but displayed in his statements to the press a healthy consciousness of realities and a willingness to bide his time...
Dear Norton, bide with us today...
...KING'S HENCHMAN-Edna St. Vincent Millay-Harper ($2). Folk who must bide their time to hear how Composer Deems Taylor upheld his end of a notable collaboration, will wonder, reading this play, which was written first, his music or the Millay words? If she followed him, he must have written right beautifully. If he followed her, the music needed little more than orchestrating. In the speeches set down here, scarcely a line falls upon the ear without touching a clear note-a misty whitethorn treble, superstitious minors, full-throated, Beowulfian bass. Had the Metropolitan singers at last fortnight...
...Cross the River from Queens." The plot: a Dry millionaire soap manufacturer, arrested in a night club, switches to the Wets after a month in jail, with such success that he is elected to Congress, and his daughter and pet office girl are free to marry their respective tenors. Bide Dudley (dramatic critic of the N. Y. Evening World) and Louis Simon (actor in the play) wrote the book, worked in many a laugh, also insinuated a jail scene, one of those atrociously vulgar burlesques on sex perversion so popular this year. It was greeted enthusiastically, justifying entirely the discretion...
...Catholic Christendom for the supremacy of the Church. His Holiness knows that, though he will go some day to his eternal rest, another and another pope will rise to continue the steady pressure of Catholicism upon the governments of Mexico. If Calles is a second Juarez the Papacy can bide the coming of a second Diaz. Events of a most crucial week in the eternal struggle: Race against Time. During the last hours before the Calles decrees expelling the clergy from their churches came into effect last week Catholic prelates in Mexico continued their recent "race against time" to baptize...