Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Greenwood is a friendly sort of person who takes the audience along with her--even into the bath room scene which is the star performance of the evening, being a riotous combination of two telephones, a dumb waiter, a dumber delivery man, hot water, cold ice and a burglar. Among other good sketches must be classed "Crossed Wires" in which the operator gets off at least six good ones in a row, and "Crystal Wedding Day". This has in it some brand new mirror effects...
...discussing Prohibition, Mr. Pell committed himself, as he did in Congress against the Volstead Act. "Its faults lie in that it is applied to the poor and not to the rich and that it has no weight of public opinion behind it. If a burglar should walk through the Yard, you fellows would look on him with dislike and horror. But do you shun a bootlegger, when he breaks the law as much as the burglar does...
...rooms the thief missed some good hauls. One student had two pocket books, one containing $20 and the other $2. The burglar finding the $2 moved on to the next room. Another who had 75 cents in one pocket and $10 in another escaped as easily as his neighbor...
...learn from the Century Company that "The Gentleman in Pajamas," a novel by Charles Neville Buck, to be published by them this month, has for plot the following situation: A burglar, instead of gathering up availables and leaving the scene of his crime at the earliest convenient moment, settles down to live with his victim while he forces him to liquidate his estate and turn over his assets as fast as they become easily negotiable to the man who greeted him one midnight with: "All I want is all you have." The burglar meets servants, secretary, friends of his victim...
...bright ray however which penetrates the gloom of the catastrophe is the fact that the proctor was not robbed. Possibly the astute burglar realized his inability to cope with such a man. Possibly he was so burdened with spoils already that he hesitated to endanger his pockets with more. But perhaps the circumstance that the proctor's door was locked had something to do with it. It appears that his was almost the only door which was locked, and to a sensitive criminal, the hospitality of the generous students who magnificently left their doors open must have been infinitely more...