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...Peabody obtained the statistics of pre-prohibition drunkenness. Ninety per cent, she found, were intoxicated by beer which Congress may legalize again. With logical reasoning one infers that if everyone, including the innocent children, must drink several gallons a week, since the mathematical odds favor the capacity of the saloon habitue as compared to the post-war drinker, more than ninety per cent of the people would be drunk every week. Continuing in this vein, if only about ten per cent were left to manufacture the beer, it is doubtful if they could supply the consumers. The belligerent beer drinkers...
There are other good songs ("I Got Religion," "Should I Be Sweet?") but "Smoothie," rendered by Mr. Haley and Miss Merman, consistently manages to stop the show to the embarrassment of Funnyman Silvers whose adjacent skit begins with his being kicked out of a saloon. The first two nights he was kicked out eight times. Take a Chance affords capital amusement-with...
Plot: A Pocatello, Idaho madame, wronged in youth, sits in the centre of a web of rootin', tootin', shootin' lawlessness. Her name is Salt Chunk Mary. But although she conducts a thieves' den and liquor saloon, Salt Chunk is violently opposed to white slavery, has a 14-karat heart. To her resort comes a youthful badman who soon pokes his neck in the shadow of the gallows. Salt Chunk, drawn to him by some strange fascination, makes him promise to go straight, helps him escape with the sweetheart he has picked up in her place, dies...
...back upon the states, few of which are ready to deal with it. When in 1920 New York passed an enforcement act, it repealed its excise laws for liquor regulation. When in 1923 it repealed the same act, its statutes were left bare of authority to cope with the saloon. In many a state last week governors announced they would not tinker their local laws?or lack of them?until the 18th Amendment was repealed...
...even when he chooses to sleep in a gutter. Later a certain galloping becomes evident in the tread of The Conquerors. It is held together mainly by the rhythm of coincidence and double exposures of Richard Dix. Typical shot: Guy Kibbee, drunk and oratorical, inducing the patrons of a saloon to deposit their money instead of squandering it for liquor...