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Said The New York World: "In opera it is essential that the tenor shall be either a very young and poor man who gets the girl at last, or else a very wild and rich rake who eventually receives what is known in ring parlance as the raspberry. The American public would not tolerate any of its fistic heroes in the latter unflattering light. And the American public could not conceivably believe in the verisimilitude of the first role. For none in America ever heard of a poor young boxer...
Representative Burton of Ohio will keynote for the Republicans. He is expected to make a good conservative speech, nothing spectacular. But what of Harrison? Won't he furnish drama! Won't he rake the Republicans over the coals! What will he leave of the Republican platform, that will then be a newborn babe, brought forth into the world only a few days before? Won't the Republican candidates slink away, like Cataline, before the scourging he will give them! Harrison is a man worth listening to. Hear his famous tongue as it has crackled...
...anything in his past which he wants to forget he should never ride on an ocean liner, because the ship news reporter will surely rake...
...title out of the Bible and its morals out of Omar Khayam. Again it is a play (of the same name) cinemized, but the maidenly morals of Hollywood stop the movie just short of the play. There is Corinne Griffith, playing an innocent wife, and then there is her rake of a husband. Naturally, under such circumstances it is the wife not the husband, who is caught in a compromising situation and ruthlessly divorced from husband and child. Then comes the handsome Conway Tearle, sweet and unmarried. He offers her an apartment-to test her. Suddenly she hears that...
Theatre treasurers, as well as a number of managers, receive from the agencies a rake-off of anywhere from 25? to $2 a ticket for preferred locations. A $5.50 musical show is thus automatically boosted as high as $7.50. The agencies take on all the traffic they can bear. Often if they have not the tickets requested they purchase them from other brokers. The price bulges into double figures...