Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fears Sleepy and Drunken Drivers...
...cars, without ever staying in line. They not only risk their own and other people's lives but they actually slow down traffic. We do not anticipate much trouble on either Friday or Saturday morning. What we do fear is Saturday night, when a great many sleepy and perhaps drunken drivers will be striving to beat each other back to Boston. The drunken drivers, if caught, will be dealt with very severly, you can be sure. Personally, I would advise no one to come back on Saturday night. It seems to me that it would be far pleasanter and certainly...
...down and down. In gold boots and scarlet gown, she glided through an adagio with her big partner, Vladimiroff, to music by Glazunov. Again with Vladimiroff, she did her famed Caucasian Dances, a slinky lady then, wild and jimp with shiny eyes, while a little drum tapped like a drunken heartbeat. In a dance called the "Polka Vendredi," with the flavor of a dirty joke of the '70's, she became the sort of person that modern Chief Justices and aging college presidents were warned against in their salad days-a saucy, swaggering, heliotroped trollop. Young blades regarding...
...sweet. At sea, they join Murray's company in two ships. One of them, the Royal James, Murray's own ship, dominated by his cold cruelty, is as disciplined as a ship of the line. The other, the Wal- rus, under Captain Flint, contains the ruffianly crew of drunken, careless, filthy, fighting buccaneers, whom Stevenson made famous. There is Long John Silver, the one-legged, still as ingratiating, still as desperate as ever. There is Pew, the crafty blindman, who sees with his ears. There is Billy Bones, the mate. Southward the two vessels sail. Captain Murray is intent...
...authors (Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson) owe no moderate debt to the cast for a performance that rubs elbows with perfection. Louis Wolheim (Hairy Ape) plays the drunken captain; William Boyd, the sergeant; and Leyla Georgie, a newcomer, the girl. Mr. Wolheim has the toughest face in the American Theatre, the toughest part as Captain Flagg, and he blends them irresistibly. The remainder of the company seems a superb selection. The play with any other cast would smell too sweet...