Word: herein
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Howdy, King. Having made a million and more by providing the U. S. public with a cheerful conglomeration of the races in Abie's Irish Rose, Producer Anne Nichols now tries a mixture of cowboys and kings. Herein, a millionaire cowherd of Arizona rambles all over Europe on the indefinite trail of Helen Bond, a member no doubt of the Junior League. He appears in expensive cafés, twirling his native lasso, topped with a wide-brimmed sombrero, upholstered in furry, wild-West leg-clothes, a sight for any romantic heifer. Helen's aunt snubs...
...Shadow," leader of native insurgents. Masked, the Flaming Youth makes successful love in the desert fashion. In the East when a man claps his hands twice, slaves rush out, carry the designated women off to be bathed and anointed, then served up to their lord and master. Herein, the high producer clapped his hands and 90-odd chorines went to the showers. There is a mystery and a romance about the East. A huge cast, gorgeous settings, some good singing and Vivienne Segal make The Desert Song alluring, but the sands of Broadway do not burn...
...Humble. In reproving contrast to The Noose (see below) stands a play fashioned from Dostoievsky's Crime and Punishment. Herein a Russian student is goaded to murder by what he considers a rational motive: to rid the world of a monster. His tortured philosophy fails to comprehend the final principle of rational thought, "the law that there shall be law." The story-teller fastens upon the young man's soul, wrings it, twists it, wracks it, as only a Russian can, or would. The play follows the novel's torments through hours of merciless misery. That...
...virtue of the U. S. habit of having Weeks for things like Safety, Apples, Thrift, and agreed on the second week in November as a time to spread all their books for children on the front show-tables and have the clerks specialize in describing them. Some said that herein flashed a shrewd eye for profit. To which others replied: "What of it? There are more children than ever before, hence there must be more books." Still others added: "And never before were books made for children as they are made today...
...Inasmuch as the successful working of this agreement depends upon the strict observance of all rules herein contained, each club member shall consider it a matter of honor to maintain such rules...