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After Tomorrow. The play which Producer John Golden has chosen to usher in this season sets out deliberately to make its audiences weep. If spectators are compelled to blubber at After Tomorrow they must realize that, like Alice's, their tears are not real tears. They are being hoodwinked by bald and brazen theatrical bathos...
...vagaries of diet are advised by food faddists which run from nothing but grapes to almost nothing but oranges? through purely vegetarian, largely meat, fat-poor, salt-poor, vitamin-rich, sugar-poor, carbohydrate-rich, only milk and largely nut diets?with the expectancy that soon someone will exploit a blubber diet. . . . All these dietary regimens seem to succeed in ratio to the psychological influence of the adviser and the psychopathic complex of the advisee." He advised merely eating less ordinary foods and being satisfied with a pound a week loss of weight...
...have been putting [seal] blubber under our boilers, and our success has been amazing. And now we are going to make a trial with penguin carcasses. . . . There will be no scarcity of raw material...
When Dick was so fatally sold, Clarence was nowhere about. His father imagined him, now a rich boy, kidnapped. A scared posse found the stripling all a-blubber, trying to warm his back against the outside of a stockyard store. Reporters nagged him. Muttered he: "Dick's so gentle he wouldn't hurt anybody. But he knew me best, and every time I went near him he tried to lick my face...
...help America when it gets the Eskimo craze, begins to eat seal blubber and wears its flannels twelve months in the year. Just now the Riffa have got us, and promise to keep us until they have exhausted the Spanish Shawl market and the Morroco Leather Trust. To meet the popular demand Lady Fair has been ground out, and now, on the eve of its New York production it is being given the third degree at the Shubert...