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...Balieff, with his apparently broken English and thousand quips and merry sayings, presented his sequence of light-hearted acts in a manner new to the American stage. Little scenery, perfect acting in any situation whatsoever, things unfortunately quite lacking in the reviews, were the two pins upon which gorgeous pageants which are American revues. M. Balieff hung his carefree production. He knew the right measure of the various components which go to taking the successful production. The same of course holds true in the case of M. Stanislasky, and it must be a oy to the lovers of his productions...
Famous Players-Lasky. President Adolph Zukor last week announced that the company's 1926 net profits were $5,600,815. The Paramount Theatre, Manhattan, has been taking in an average of $75,000 weekly; is earning money at the rate of $1,000,000 a year. Less gorgeous are more than 550 other "Publix" theatres owned and controlled by the corporation, and earning profits. This year Beau Geste, Old Ironsides, Wedding March, Wings, Rough Riders and The Greatest Show on Earth, all Famous Players-Lasky productions, will tour the country as though they were plays on the legitimate stage...
German-Jews outpeddled the Yankees, who turned storekeepers -Woolworths, Wanamakers. The canal, steamboat and railroad superseded wagoning. Religion grew organized, shutting out all but the most gorgeous spellbinders-Sundays and Sankeys, Moodies and McPhersons. Book peddlers had to learn the mass technique that flowered in Elbert Hubbard, Nelson Doubleday, E. Haldeman-Julius. All that remain of itinerant America are the scurrying hired droves who still "drum" everything from coal dust to white space; the glib "representatives" whose backslaps, hotel snoring and smoking-car anecdotes constitute an unmelodioua ground-buzz in the U. S. chorus...
...Student Vagabond has recently been accused of indulging all too frequently in "most just positively gorgeous non sequitura" and while the accusation is perhaps, true, the Vagabond sees no reason why he should be deprived of this harmless and very pleasant pastime. In any case he is going to indulge himself today, so any reader who wishes to peruse something pertinent had better turn to the adjoining column...
...scooped up the prettiest little split infinitives, the cutest conceits, the most just positively gorgeous non sequiturs and took them all to John Harvard's statue to make him green with envy...