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...government must see to it that taxes are reasonable and that prices are maintained at a fair level in the future. It is does not do this, it will be making Repeal the same sort of empty word that Prohibition was, and will have encouraged and fattened its parlour pet, the criminal...
...episodic pageant of empire not yet legitimately staged in the U, S. Further down the street the shadow of Claudette Colbert was to be seen fluttering across a screen version (Tonight is Ours) of one of Playwright Coward's most dismal failures, The Queen Was in the Parlour. Wherever he went last year-with the possible exception of the Brazilian jungles-during an enviably carefree junket, he could hear tunes he had written for Bittersweet, and the more recent Words & Music simpering from phonographs and radios. With his own two hands, long head and (when he danced and sang...
...heard Anna Held sing "won't you come and play wiz me?" in England. He invited her to New York and in 1896 put her into his first theatrical production A Parlour Match. For twelve years she played in one after another mildly daring show of his, became America's foremost showgirl and Mrs. Ziegfeld...
...plays, his cynicism has kept the great public from crowning him a favorite. Says he cynically: "I have never called myself cynical. . . . I've always thought myself truthful." Author Maugham has written: The Trembling oj a Leaf, Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Six pence; The Gentleman in the Parlour (TIME, May 5); (plays): East of Suez, The Circle, The Letter...
...GENTLEMAN IN THE PARLOUR-W. Somerset Maugham - Doubleday, Doran...