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Singer Smith's selections called for no fancy, bravura vocalizing. He sang two simple folk songs-"The Sidewalks of New York" and "The Bowery"-and so far as his audience was concerned his vocal shortcomings were more than atoned for by his obvious sincerity of purpose. Be fore he had finished he had everyone singing with him, even the traffic cops. Professor John R. Jones, long-haired music-master who usually supervises Mrs. Vanderlip's Infirmary sings, stood in the background, beating orthodox time. But the audience ignored him when Singer Smith grinned a wide grin, waved...
...station went newsmen, photographers, city officials. They met an incoming train. On board was George E. ("Hardboiled") Golding, "ace" of the Federal Prohibition Bureau, and eight assistants. Big, bespectacled Mr. Golding and his staff had recently combatted Chicago beer-runners with their own methods of shooting and blackjacking. This bravura policy is said to have caused Mr. Golding's removal. Previous to Chicago, he had operated in Cleveland, where he secured 112 indictments. The Golding fame rests largely on the Golding flair for secrecy. But never did soft shoe men indulge in such a brouhaha of publicity...
Saturday's Children. If a white plume can be found for today's drama it waves upon the vizors of the "debunking" playwrights. In the first squad of their foremost legion marches Maxwell Anderson. He collaborated with Laurence Stallings to write What Price Glory? in which War's bravura of blah is ground into...
...youngest in line, The Countess Maritza, disclosed nothing more sensational than a former Metropolitan prima donna of human dimensions. Indeed, shapely Yvonne D'Arle's skipping and gestures are more suggestive of the Shubert girl than the Gatti-Casazza stalwart. Had she injected less grand opera bravura into her lyric cadenzas, she might have proved even more effective...