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Brass Buttons. Beneath the broad blue bosom of a Manhattan cop an honest heart goes thumping through this play. He rescues Rosie Moore from suicide. Thump, thump. She becomes a mother, poor unmarried lass. Thump. The cop finds her betrayer. Thump, he smites him on the jaw. He marries Rosie. Thump, thump, thump. The acting seldom has a chance. Experienced playgoers waiting to be stirred went through the evening, thumpless...
...with impudent realism. Estelle Winwood encourages his impudence with important blurts and wabbles, including the removal of her shoes. To Fay Bainter, is allotted the task of growing more dignified and lady like with every gulp. All this consumes the second act. A first tells how these impeccable and bosom friends had girlish love affairs with the same man. The man is coming back, also their husbands. In the third act they have headaches. Solemn witnesses will deem the second act a disaster; others a delight. The rest matters scarcely...
...from many others for the honor makes those who go to see it inclined to inquire closely into what justification the play presents for the judges' decision. To the audience which saw the opening night in Boston at the Arlington Theater of Paul Green's "In Abraham's Bosom," however, there was little doubt but that this play fully merited some such honor as the Pulitzer award it received last winter...
...Monday the major and his fifteen hundred boosters, every one with his "America First" badge on his bosom, reached Washington. His main purpose in making the trip he announced, shouting to make himself heard above the din of his combined quartette and sailor orchestra "is to assure the President that the people of Chicago are virtually 100 per cent in favor of legislation that will settle the Mississippi flood problem." Chicago is a large city on Lake Michigan...
...Rollin Kirby, famed cartoonist of the New York World, drew a picture. In the center he had the majestic figure of "The Winged Victory" striding forward against the wind, her loose draped garment blown against strong limbs and matronly bosom. Way off in the margin of the carton stood a roly-poly figure of a girl, marked "Ruth Elder." Her knickers hung in characterless lines. Her kollege kut sweater with checks accentuated the dumpiness. From that ignominious, crowded-out position, she contemplated the noble figure on the pedestal above her. The picture was entitled by Cartoonist Kirby, "The Sisters...