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...Perlmutter. Abe and Mawruss-in anything that might be called the silent drama? Abe and Mawruss-toned down to the flat black-and-whiteness of the screen? It sounds as mournful as a sixth class French funeral, doesn't it? But, strangely enough, it isn't. Even shorn of actual speech Abe and Mawruss remain uproariously funny - the same vulgar, unctuous incredible immortals they were when they first sprang twin-Minervas of the cloak-and-suit trade from the brain of Montague Glass. The plot more or less follows the outline of the first Potash and Perlmutter play...
...Grew, American unofficial observer, permitted the concessions of the British Vickers-Armstrong Syndicate and French Regie Generale des Chemins de Fer, shorn of their obnoxious preferential clauses, to be included in the Treaty. In vain Sir Horace Rumbold argued that the Turkish Petroleum Co. concession for the Mesopotamian oilfields was valid, that his Government considered no other claims when British interests were affected and that any later contradictory agreement (i. e., the Chester Concession) made by the Turks was simply illegal. Mr. Grew icily referred the British representative to the three years' correspondence between the British and American Governments...
...Governor Davis, who made opposition to the Industrial Court one of the chief issues of his campaign, was the lone Democrat elected. In spite of his election. Governor Davis could not abolish the Court- the legislature was entirely in the hands of his opponents. Now the Supreme Court has shorn the Industrial Court of much of its power, Governor Davis thinks the opportune moment has come. He announced that he was considering an extra session of the legislature to repeal the Industrial Court law. Said he: " There is no reason for further squandering the gorgeous sums of money which...
These manuscripts, loaned to the University by George A. Plimpton of New York, are here for only a short time. They are the life-work of some patient penman, the fancies of an artist "all shaven and shorn". "Look two and two go the priests, then monks with cowls and sandals. And the penitents dressed in white shirts, a-holding the yellow candles." They are a curious collection, full of interest for scholar and antiquarian; food for the imagination and the artistic taste of anyone who examines them...
...Unemployment" is to be the general subject of Mr. Ledoux's address, and after his talk members of the Club will take part in a general discussion on the same subject. During the fall Mr. Ledoux. Popularly known as "Mr. Zero," conducted several sensational auctions of so-called "shorn lambs," former soldiers who had applied to him for aid on account of lack of employment. These auctions were held both on Boston Common and in Bryant Park, New York; in the latter place the meeting was broken up by the police...