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This destiny drew nigh when President Arthur Griffith of the Provisional Government found himself obliged to go to London in the summer of 1922, and appointed as his deputy in Dublin his warm personal friend William Thomas Cosgrave. On Aug. 12 President Griffith died. Ten days later the Government was further smitten by the assassination of its next most prominent leader, Michael Collins. With Griffith and Collins dead, the presidential toga descended upon Mr. Cosgrave, and he was formally elected President...
Wilbur--"Peggy Ann," 8.15 o'clock. A well nigh perfect musical comedy...
...grave, Mme. Jon Bratiano* swayed and seemed nigh to fainting. She was embraced and steadied by the Dowager Queen Marie, who, turning toward the coffin as it was lowered into the earth, apostrophized thus: "Great and good friend of my youth and of my riper years! As long as there is still breath in me, for all that I am worth I shall try with God's help to carry on and uphold King Ferdinand's and your great work. Amen...
After all these years--here it is; the well nigh perfect musical comedy. They may come bigger, but they don't come better than "Peggy Ann." The Fields-Rogers-Hart combination was responsible for the book and score; Helen Ford and Lulu McConnell, aided by a clever cast and a slim and agile chorus, romp through the zany-like plot; and the audience has a simply swell time the entire evening...
...Reichstag welkin rang last week with probably the most concerted denunciation of the Dawes Plan yet heard within its walls. Deputies representing every German political faction spoke in well nigh unanimous agreement for something over a half day, amid repeated applause from all over the House. No Cabinet member took part in the debate, but Deputy Friedrich Dessauer, speaking for the Centrist party of Chancellor (Prime Minister) Wilhelm Marx, was considered to have voiced the opinion of the government when he said...