Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Printz is an Arrow Collar boy with an Arrow Collar boy's personality. He sings fairly-well, however, and makes an honest stab at being Kathie's equal. She, the waitress, is a cute baby-face with a pleasant voice and more acting poise than her royal lover. The master-comedian, Dewolf Hopper, gives a professional air to the show and makes even the slightest wise-crack seem funny by the aid of a contorted face and voice. The rest of the cast is enthusiastic and homely enough to make the play as wholesome and hearty as a German Christians...
...Said a boy of ten years: "I nearly got arrested twice. Gee, I gave the Cossacks a lot of trouble. I wish they would arrest me. My mother threw a rock at a Cossack and raised a lump on his head. Gee, I laughed! I'd like to stab a Cossack!" Albert Weisbord. Last week a threat signed by the "Black Hand Society" was sent to "Albert -Communist." It said that he must leave Passaic within 48 hours or his headquarters would be bombed and he would find himself six feet under the earth. He ignored it, no terrestial...
Charged with murder there was brought before the Paris Court of Assize last week M. Berthelin, one of the greatest of French chefs. He spoke with verve and passion in his own defense: "This creature Davillard, my dishwasher, my scullion, what did he do that I should stab him in the chest with my carving skewer? Ha! Nom de Dieu! Standing at his filthy sink, he declared that my sauces stink, that they engender colic in delicate stomachs. My sauces! Sacre bleu! The pride of my cuisine. The pride of France. . . . "Mes amis, the sensibilities, the temperament of a great...
...Florida in 1565. You say that Menendez lined the French up before a firing squad. He did nothing of the kind. He quietly slid a janeta beneath the fifth rib of each. Of course if you don't know history it is just as well to make a stab at it, since so few people know enough to know the difference between truth and error...
Parasites. Francine Larrimore belongs in this play about as much as she belongs in the Chinese army. Miss Larrimore is a vivid young woman with a drawl. She is the kind that ought to go suddenly into an Apache dance with the District Attorney and stab her way back to the underworld. Against a Bar Harbor background she jars perceptibly. Still that was the way the whole play went. It was a cheap conception by Cosmo Hamilton, probably having originally a sound satirical value. The latter was played out of it by a poor cast and burlesqued...