Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Jay Chapman, graduate of Harvard, resident of Manhattan, author and publicist, is a man of intensity, energy. What he believes, he believes passionately. His right arm is off at the elbow. Few have the exact reasons for this, but it is commonly believed that, for having struck a friend (or teacher), Mr. Chapman did penance by thrusting his right arm into a blazing furnace...
Small boys will thank the anonymous "friend", however, for Mr. Rockefeller may thereby be induced to increase his Christmas present from a nickle to a dime. Perhaps this is a cooked up story and Cal is simply carrying on a little propaganda to help along the Christmas spirit of giving. At all events, here is the matter for an epic, and a troubadour must be found...
...honesty and gratitude of the "friend" are to be commended, but the real pity is that he has robbed American history of a tradition: Paul Revere spurring his nag toward Concord, Daniel Webster with his hair tossed back and his throat well oiled. Abraham Lincoln and his cadaverous friendliness, Grant and his cigar; to this glorious galaxy of national heroes might have been added the epic story of Calvin and his dime, if this "friend" had not draped the pall of anonymity over the gusto of anecdote. Still, some patriotic Ananias should be able, from the postmark "Racine", to create...
...Calles. Then, with peculiar suddenness, de la Huerta rocked the revolutionary cradle of Mexico?the triumvirate was shattered; and, in its ruins, de la Huerta found his political grave. Only one man was left to succeed Obregon; nor did Obregon conceal his satisfaction; for the man was Calles, his friend, his protégé, his faithful comrade-in-arms...
...Miss Elsie Hitz, who plays the part of Jerry Lamar in the current presentation. Miss Hitz is capable but by no means up to the standard set by Miss Claire. During the play the interest of the audience shifts from Jerry Lamar to Mabel Munroe, her chorus girl friend, played by Miss Olive Blakeney. One is tempted to forget the rest of the cast and to eulogizo Miss Blakeney...