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Ralph Morehouse had a trying part as a detective. We suppose it should be blamed on Mr. Cohan; but still, the blurb of the detective which lets the audience, and the actors, know how much he loves humanity seems terribly over-done. It is a trifle sickening for a two-fisted, hardboiled, graft-hunting. Irish detective to fall without warning to the estate of fond "deus ex." Mr. Morehouse would have had it over sooner if he had known his part better. But the prompter's voice can rarely be entirely dispensed with on stock company's first nights...
...welcome another sport to their numbers. Doubleday Page and Co. announced the publication of A Pocket Bridge Book ($1.00) by Walter Camp, under whose outstretched arm the health of the nation is upbuilded. " You can't be a 'dub' if you read this book," guarantees the blurb. "Mr. Camp is an expert...
...Said the blurb of the new weekly: "Its views on political, social, religious, economic and moral questions will be fearlessly expressed, without favor. . . . It will, briefly, aim to present an accurate and complete picture of this age in which we live. . . . Do you enthuse...
...novels you are writing in your own heads. I have treated you just as though you were that other self in me who is my best reader. I have given you the fare I like best." The reader expects "joltings"?especially after reading the publisher's blurb, stating that the author has attempted a "new form, not a short story, but raw material." The fact of the matter is that this is a book of short stories and is nothing...
Papers-for-People-Who-Think published her " signed story detailing her amazing career," her " first romance," her conviction, and her still more astonishing escape, her wanderings in foreign lands and her recapture in Honduras " through the efforts of the Hearst newspapers." . . . The story will continue, presumes the blurb, "from day to day until the whole startling narrative ends with the clanging of the prison doors behind her in San Quentin prison...