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...Blue Bandanna. Hitherto, young Sidney Blackmer in his plays has been considered as working under wraps. His voice has been subdued, he has seemed as though weighed down under affairs of state. Now in his latest thriller he is actually working under wraps. He bears around with him probably the largest wardrobe in circulation on the stage. He has so many costumes they amount to a supporting company...
...Blackmer seems to have been led to assert himself in order to energize this new play. A mystery melodrama by one Hubert Osborne, it is the direct antithesis of the pieces in which Blaekmer has lately been appearing, most of which have been decorously whispered behind the hand...
...Democrats and Republicans adjourned immediately after this gathering to separate rooms where they took the first steps toward organization. B. E. Lippincott, F. W. Whitney, S. H. Blackmer and D. L. Hellfrich were chosen as a temporary Republican committee while F. D. Ashburn, T. C. Hume, J. S. Platt, and A. A. Ryan were picked to organize the Democratic party. Coolidge, La Follettee, Hoover, Borah and Johnson clubs were formed within the Republican party and the Democrats split into groups who advocated Underwood, Roosevelt, McAdoo or Davis for the nomination...
Percy Hammond: "MoonFlower is a bit languid and discursive. It prefers loquacity to action . . . Mr. Blackmer's passions are . . . less dumb than dumbbell...
John Corbin: "In the way of frankly artificial romance, few situations could promise better. It was a promise that overlooked Sidney Blackmer . . . All his motions are deliberate to exasperation...