Word: highwayman
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...find our highwaymen. Gentleman Jo has shot the stage coach guard in the belly. It was certainly in the belly because there are five references to Gentleman Jo's custom of shooting only at the belly. Gentleman Jo, is not the Jeffrey Farnol or the Alfred Noyes sort of highwayman, as the bar maid had hoped, because but read the story for yourself. I might spoil it for you, hard Dixon should be read twice...
Lajos Biro has contributed two diversions popular in Europe : The Highwayman and The Yellow Lily. Antonia, a recent play by Melehior Lengyel, is charted for production by the Frohmans. The Tragedy of Man, a noted Continental classic, is also confidently expected...
...spite of aspersions, The Beggar's Opera has its points. It was written as a parody on the Continental operas then being played in London and on the debauched court life of the period. A highwayman was made the hero instead of the usual sugary prince, and his morals were made somewhat better than those of the court. For music Gay took the popular ballads and wrote new lyrics-satirical, delightful, tart. The result has the vigor of all things born from the spirit of the people as opposed to gross artificiality. Its success in London must be attributed...
Jesse James. The Robin Hood of America ". . . there was no ultimate evil and no ultimate good that the dashing highwayman did not accomplish." Behind the fantastic and villainous hero of the yellow backs, Mr. Dibble finds a not unlovable young man, more sinned against than sinning, indomitable, humorous, fighting a dauntless fight against inconceivable odds, downed in the end only by treachery...
Sylvia Breamer is consistently entertaining in the title role. With the exception of Warren Kerrigan, her satellites twinkle pleasantly in their several spheres. Kerrigan has apparently been touched by the Valentino influence and plays his highwayman a trifle daintily...