Word: powderly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Skeet Gallagher is easily the best actor in the play and handles a majority of the laugh-provoking lines. For the rest, none deserve special mention save the novelty dancers and the three "aged" Tuttles. The settings are well done, the costumes are excellent and the chorus (paintless and powder-less according to advertisements) is well trained; the play itself was too long on Monday night and will undoubtedly be improved by illuminating sundry unessentials...
Many such intricate machines have been organized in our ship of state, but none so subtle or so liable to detonate the powder magazine of "bolshevism" as this one. Mayor Thompson, like all demagogues, is a "protector of the peepul," and posing as such, has attacked nearly all forms of organized business in the city, especially the public utilities, and the "robber traction barons." His platform smacks rather of Lenine than of an American statesman. At a time when the utmost should be done to conciliate capital and labor, he is making Immoderate and uncalled for attacks on established business...