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...tall, old doctor stops at a patient slumped in a wheel chair. He lifts the patient's dull face by the chin and turns to the visitors. The loose ends of his black string tie, which he always wears in a bow, flop about as he explains the case. "This man," he says in effect, "is in the early stages of paresis.* The paralysis has not advanced hopelessly. By injecting into his blood the germs of malaria or serum from the blood of people sick with malaria, we will stop the spread of the syphilis. The malaria toxins...
Read about Roger Wolfe Kahn, amused, pleased [TIME, Sept. 19]. Kahn's Perroqueet [Manhattan night club] stopped flapping last Spring, a flop. His band has usually been a flop, lacking personality. He gets jobs at small figures, boosting the payroll out of his pocket. He hires big stars who get extraordinary salaries and really play but the public doesn't pay to hear music, rather to see personality. Kahn plays many instruments, but how? His arrangers and players make the music good. Will you ask a few musicians if this is not so-your New York office...
...producer to turn out a musical comedy. There are dress rehearsal scenes, dressing-room scenes, scenes where the effeminate stage manager fumes. After all is set for the opening night, the actor who plays the part of the producer holds up his hands in dismay, cries: "What a terrible flop ... I don't believe we'll live till Saturday!" Thereupon the real audience at the Lyric Theatre mocked him with loud applause...
...English audiences. A Boston audience, he declared, is much more like a London audience than one in Detroit. "Our show this year," he want on, "has been very well-received everywhere we went, except in Detroit. There, before audiences composed chiefly of bibulous automobile makers, our show was a flop. They just couldn't see it. I like to watch the people who are watching my shows and it is interesting to notice their reactions. Here, in Boston, now, in contrast to Detroit, the audiences seem to understand the show, and though it doesn't call for a brilliant mind...
Honor Be Damned. Again, Willard Mack. In this, his fourth play of the season, (The Noose, success, Lily Sue, not a success, Hangman's House, flop) he enacts the leading role himself. He is a smooth-tongued criminal lawyer, who could convince any jury of twelve men that "even if his client did steal the Brooklyn Bridge, the city didn't need the thing, anyhow." Among his achievements is securing the acquittal of a political friend charged with being the father of an illegitimate child. The able lawyer's "women folks" object to his consorting with politically influential bums, whereupon...