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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lyric, West 42nd St.--The Ramblers is another combination bill; Clark and McCullough, Marie Saxon; Ruth Tester, and Jack Whiting. Clark and McCullough are superb slapstick artsts, using the tricks of Sgannerello and Harlequin on a modern stage in a modern way. Ruth Tester glows personality. Merie Saxon and Jack Whiting prove that beauty, dancing ability, and pleasing personalities can be combined...
...Senator Bruce are rarely hushed. Last spring, Senator Neely of West Virginia told him to his face that he talked too much. "I believe that I do not exaggerate," said Mr. Neely, "when I say that we have heard the Senator from Maryland speak 75 times on this bill [the Watson-Parker railroad bill]. We have learned to know in advance just what he is going to say.... We have voted down everything the Senator from Maryland has proposed and defeated everything he has supported, by a majority of 3 to 1.... But some debaters are insuppressible...
Asked about his predicament, Superintendent McAndrew was bland. "The investigations," he said, "have all been conducted on the same plane. I have been given no bill of requirements to fill out and no specific educational policies to defend." Then, with exquisite tact, he added: ''I have been in Chicago, altogether, seven* years. Since things move five times as fast in Chicago as elsewhere, those seven years amount to 35 actual years. That is long enough to absorb the Chicago atmosphere...
...business," may have been the comment of Lord Rothermere last week when the Commons passed a bill forbidding the publication of evidence offered in divorce trials. Since the Rothermere papers have fattened on such fare his "genius" must provide a substitute...
...hundred and five million dollars from the United States Treasury will be spent in the erection of ten light cruisers, if a bill presented to Congress by Representative Butler and approved by President Coolidge is passed. These cruisers will serve supposedly to "guarantee peace" between the nations in the four-power naval pact...