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...Original Subscriber I feel privileged to call your attention to a criticism of the play They Knew What They Wanted (TIME, Jan. 12), in which your critic refers to San Francisco as "Frisco." Should this be quoted from the plays program, all is forgiven (as far as far as TIME is concerned); but should it not be, please do not allow TIME to stoop...
...program contains neither "Frisco" nor San Francisco. TIME agrees that "Frisco" is a very low grade of drummers' slang...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED -Pauline Lord painting the portrait of a penniless Frisco waitress summoned by mail to marry an aged Italian peasant. Great acting in a good play...
...Such statements, several to the page, enlighten this novel by Robert W. Service, loud versifier. The narrative concerns one Jerry Delane, whose career as a respectable member of society is cut short by an unjust imprisonment for safecracking. He becomes a pug, a hobo, a beachcomber, breaks noses in Frisco, hearts in Papeete. All these things Mr. Service has himself experienced; he also was once a reporter-doubtless a good one. In this book he has written a thrilling news-story...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED ?The vineyards of California, some of the sunshine and some of the bitterness, told by an old Italian peasant, the Frisco waitress he married by mail and a shiftless, handsome farm hand...