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Broadway has lately blazed with headlines: "Sex Plays Raided," "Police Rout Vice Show," etc. etc. What actually occurred was more polite. By arrangement with the managements, detectives called in police limousines for the actors, actresses, producers and authors of The Captive, Sex and The Virgin Man. They called after the evening performances, like well-behaved escorts. In night court, pleased judges accepted packets of bail. Then everyone posed for flashlight pictures. The hearings were vaguely postponed. Day courts furnished the theatres with injunctions against further "persecution...
...annual Quatre Arts ball where all cares are lost at 9 o'clock, all caution at 12, all scruples and costumes at 3, all sanity before the dawn. . . . When dawn came, Paris gendarmes-as is customary this one night of the year-offered no objections to the staggering rout that chortled, hiccuped and quarreled homeward with grease paint run amuck and hardly enough draperies among the multitude to have warmed a frog. Scenes of Saturnalian abandonment had been enacted-frenzied dancing, delirious overtures, posturing, French embraces and the parade of "beauty unadorned," in which "La Belle...
...Palace Cabinet" persistently refused to resign, despite the utter rout of its nominal supporters at the polls. Its real backers were more than hinted at in a widely credited rumor that Lord Lloyd had demanded, as British High Commissioner to Egypt, that if a Wafd cabinet should be formed special guarantees must be given Britain respecting Suez and the Sudan. A despatch positively asserted that he had also demanded the right to "approve" the members of any new cabinet which might be formed "in the interests of public safety...
There was every indication last week that the rebellious Druses who have long fiercely resisted the attempts of France to administer Syria as a League Mandate, are continuing their guerrilla raids upon the French forces, which, with their European war equipment, easily rout these rude but courageous semi-savages whenever an actual pitched battle occurs...
...this year as last spring, when the Maine outfit played the Crimson, 8 to 5. They have been hard hit by graduation, and the late spring has not afforded them much opportunity for practice. In their opening home game the Brunswickers lost to Bates in a 15 to 5 rout. Loose fielding and the wildness of the three twirlers who officiated for Bowdoin are blamed for the defeat. Bates scored nine runs in the sixth after two were out, when Robinson issued five passes and was sent to the showers under a barrage of hits...