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Within a month the annual Spring Drive of musical comedies will be at ts height. By the first of June the hot weather revues will have usurped the roof gardens, the showmen of the metropolis will have banished serious drama from the theatre on the ancient theory that winter is the only time of year when the public cares to have its mind stimulated or its emotions massaged. All of which provokes one to philosophize on the musical show as a form of entertainment...
...foregoing must cause the ghosts of the old showmen to shriek with envy. How the owner of the "Great Monohippic Show," would have loved that writer. It is hard to believe that such an art nearly perished. If the motion pictures can really bring it back, then, whatever the cost, we demand the motion pictures...
...bargain? Possibly not, because the new owner could have the option of cultivating the ground and finding his market in Combes, or of staking out a battlefield and doing business with tourists when peace returns. What an opportunity for a man with the historic instinct! But will France permit showmen to desecrate the soil where her heroic sons have given up their lives for human liberty? The great battlefields of the war from the Somme to Verdun should be set apart and dedicated to educational and patriotic uses for all time. --New York...