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...Clubmen and Editors. Votes or questionnaires sent to members of the Directory of Directors in New York City, the Cleveland Rotary Club, Rochester Kiwanis and Kansas City Clubs, in all except the last, showed a majority in favor of repeal or modification of Prohibition. Similar votes among laboring men in Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Chicago, Missouri, Pennsylvania, showed only an inconsiderable minority for the continuance of Prohibition. Votes by editors of newspapers showed a considerable majority in favor of Prohibition...
...Manhattan, Charles E. Keck, President of the New York Rotary Club, lifted his voice against author Sinclair Lewis, creator of Babbitt, mocker of business clubmen, lodge brothers, realtors, Maccabees, Elks, Moose, Veiled Phophets etc. Said Rotarian Keck over the radio: "I'm going to take a fall out of Sinclair Lewis. . . He's due for it. If he were a big enough man to tell the story straight, it would be all right. But he fixes up a little city of Zenith, or whatever you call it, and has a little Rotary Club, and tells everybody that a Rotary Club...
...inspection of the current issue of the Lampoon indicates that the ancient the is still being performed with all due solemnity, that the old joke is still being cracked at the expense of the reader. Industrious young clubmen in training for business have collected a mass of really professional advertisements. The more juvenile members of the club who still have a taste for collecting things have clipped a fair sample of the best and the worst jokes from the various funny papers such as the Tennessee Mugwump, the American Legion Weekly, and the Daily Mail. The fact that a number...
...when Helen Menken, as the submissive sister of an absinthe-soaked shrew, turns on her with a courage restored by love, and beats her with her own, whip. LOYALTIES - John Galsworthy's somewhat theatric demonstration that conflicts in loyalties may be disastrous. A wealthy Jew, persecuted by amiable clubmen, wins a doubtful point. KIKI - Aside from holding the Broadway endurance record, Lenore Ulric is as brightly captivating as ever in the part of the just barely virtuous little Parisienne. The best current musical shows: Caroline, Chauve Souris, Greenwich Village Follies, Little Nellie Kelly, Liza, Music Box Revue, Ziegfeld Follies...
LOYALTIES-The adventures of a rich and disagreeable Jew, persecuted by amiable clubmen, prove that conflicts in loyalties may bring disaster. The play is always interesting, if somewhat theatric...