Word: scalawagging
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...curtain rose on Jules Remain's "intellectual farce," in France already a minor classic, they knew what to expect. Had usually able Director Richard Boleslavsky made it seem less like a pillow fight, they would have been delighted with this bumptious but bitterly satiric story of a scalawag physician who buys a country practice and makes it pay huge profits on the principle that, if people think they are healthy, it is merely because they don't know what ails them...
...Scalawag. David Higgins is known over the length and breadth of the land for His Last Dollar, a play written, acted, produced by him for more than a decade. In this new piece, he again enacts a lovable, old scamp bent on doing good in the wickedest ways. He would marry his pretty granddaughter to the grandson of his partner (in the garage business). The grandson helps himself into trouble by helping out a bootlegging World War veteran. But the aged rascal fixes everything. The play consists for the most part of "canned" gag situations of the reliable "old soak...
...child without any questions asked." They found that this Mary Barton, who kept an informal hostelry at Falls City, Md., had tested her hypothesis by bearing an illegitimate lad who, being naive as well as natural, supported her contention by never asking who his father was until the old scalawag himself, white-haired and green-backed, walked into the hotel, demanded a room. In act two, somebody shot the old fellow in the stomach. Who? What dastard was responsible? Not even the excellent performance of one Edith King, or the dramatic disclosures made by a female detective who had been...
...ever acted as Governor of Louisiana. His father, Pinckney Benton Stewart, as President of the State Senate and Lieutenant Governor, ruled Louisiana for two months (December 1872 through January 1873) during the impeachment trial of Governor Henry Clay Warmoth. It was at the time of the carpet-bagger-scalawag régime, when President Grant was maintaining a Republican state government in power by force of arms. Histories call Pinchback a good man or a scoundrel, depending on which side of the Mason-Dixon line they were written. Two years ago the elder Pinchback died and was buried in Metairie...