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Line (1) "Farmers": showing sylvan motif. "I was an impassioned nutter." said Woolworth, who was also something of a petter...
...motif of the plot arises from the complications attending the return of a soldier, who was thought to have been dead for ten years--an old idea, but treated in a new way, for the soldier finds that his return is undesirable. His wife has remarried, and his father, formerly a poor clerk, has climbed to amazing heights upon the reputation of his deceased son, one of the great war heroes of France. What inconvenience, then, to have the son resurrected. The only good hero is a dead hero, and not only that, but the son reveals that identification tags...
...Chicago headed the "direct action" party. The so-called "Detroit Wing" was doctrinaire, not determined about political action. After Mr. Haywood's flight from the U. S. in 1921 to escape jail, the political action clauses of the I. W. W. constitution were erased. The "one big union" motif is all that remains. Wobblies now express their political ideas mostly through the Workers' or Communist Parties. But few Wobblies have coherent political or economic notions. Their allegiance to the I. W. W., which is still said to enroll over 100,000, is largely emotional. It results from...
...into the month whose name they bear, have been the subject for many a long and vacuous dissertation. As topics for conversation they rival the tyranny of the Yard police and discussion of the current cinematic animadiversions. Extensive vocabularies have ornamented the theme; dire threats have furnished the motif. And consequent results of all this oratory have been, up to this time, entirely lacking...
Each of the company makes his cartoon figure not only comic but human, and helps carry through a farce which is only fairly good into a very pleasant evening. When the spinster motif is over-worked or the thin ice cracks it is plainly not the actor's but the author's fault. The audience was sprinkled with portions of the British Navy, who remarked truly and in accents worthy of Roland Young that it was a jolly good show; and if it is not so good as "The Ghost Train" it may run even longer. The unmarried ladies...