Word: interlocutor
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...play has to do with a group of vaudeville actors who find themselves stranded in the big city on the eve of the Vitaphone's first great practical success. There are three of them. May Daniels a wise cracking campaigner Jerry Highland who must have been the interlocutor for the skit, and George Lewis, a mental inferior who diets on Indian nuts. The girl, played by Jean Dixon, conceives the idea that Hollywood needs a school of vocal culture and that she is willing to play the adept pedagogue with the support of Jerry and George. They...
...State Department must nevertheless occasionally, deviously cope. When it was a matter of reminding Russia that, as a signatory of the Pact of Paris, she really should not go to war with China, Statesman Stimson had to utilize the good offices of Foreign Minister Briand of France as interlocutor (TIME, Dec. 16). Last week another ticklish Russian problem arose, Mr. Stimson's second. He felt it advisable to prevent the Glenn L. Martin Co. of Baltimore from fulfilling a $2,000,000 deal with Russia for 20 bombing planes and an aircraft factory. As British trade representatives informally explained...
...clues to a crime which he suspects her of having committed. Al Draper decoys both of them eventually to his roulette and poker establishment from which, by means of a raid, they are hustled to the office of the district attorney. Here, in a prolonged questioning Mazie abuses the interlocutor and the assembled company with acid witticisms. After her snarlings are concluded, the audience is pleased to discover that both girls, though fairly bad, are innocent of a murder whose author, most suitably, commits off-stage suicide...
Featured were oldtime Hippodrome names and numbers, including: Comedian De Wolf Hopper (appearing as wizard, interlocutor, Mephistopheles, Chinese Mage); Tramp-Comedian Joe Jackson and his disintegrating bicycle; ballets (Tiller, Rasch, Lenora) ; clowns, skaters, dogs, an elephant. Many of the tunes were written by Bandman Sousa, including the blaring, brassy march " 'Tis the Eagle...
When asked whether King George would be willing to leave London and enter on his duties in Washington, his supporter only smiled significantly and advised his interlocutor to be present at the rally...