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...arms traffic will continue by hook or crook. Publicity is not the weapon, however, with which to control. The very thought of publicity let loose on the normal, necessary arms traffic, a publicity that would souse the greater pulps into war scares as liquor puts a drunkard into the gutter, is a ripe tomato in the face of common sense. Have private registration of arms at Geneva; have careful investigations of their use and shipment; but keep the results for intelligent deliberation by accredited representatives; don't ladle the intoxicant to a world press that's raking its lucre...
Langhing brightly at the attempted competition of a professional group in Boston, the D.U. fraternity has decided to produce "THE DRUNKARD, or The Fallen Saved." The two performances, on Friday, March 15, and Saturday, March 16, will be followed by dances...
...Fraternity does not consider Belle Livingston's presence in town a serious threat. The members feel that the fine lines of the "Drunkard" should never be sullied by professional lips, but lift rather to the deeper emotional abilities of an amateur group...
...sober, and unfortunately someone sometime must be, "The Drunkard", as here produced, can be an annoying bore. In recreating the music hall atmosphere, the Copley seems to have scoured the streets for all those people whose stock-in-trade is "You said it, sport", and placed them in the balcony. The audience thus takes the cast by storm, its superb banalities so drowning speech on the stage as to make the play seem a pantomine. Too bad, for I recall in a previous performance that the lines of the play were pearls of wit, and trite not at all. This...
Despite Belle Livingston, the antiquarian New York hostess of the speakeasy era who copiously advertises her concurrent appearances at a neighboring restaurant--despite Leo Beers and his country singing--the ten or a dozen red- gingham-covered tables which have replaced the first rows in the orchestra--"The Drunkard" is not given the opportunity of becoming the honestly entertaining revival which its well-executed flyer-program clarions...