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April 19--"The Kiss in the Taxi," it the Wilbur. Janet Beecher and Arthm Byron in a gay comedy...
...action. His remarkable facility of facial and bodily expression, are the embodiment of all American traditions for the Apache underworld of Paris. Mr. John W. Ransome as Boul, short for boulevard, nearly lost himself in enthusiasm for his part and shouted his way to fame. As a lightfingered taxi man he harbors much too warm a heart, and the humor for a really humorous part. As Pere Chevillan, a jovial kill or cure purveyor of religion who has laughed with, as well as at the world for so long that the donkey joke won't focus, Mr. W. H. Post...
Seasoned travelers continued serene and unstirred when informed last week that the Municipal Council of Paris has at length sanctioned an increase of 25% in Parisian daytime taxi fares and has stepped up the night rates by 150%. The travelers reflected: 1) That the day rates are so ridiculously low that to increase them by one-fourth will not seriously inconvenience foreigners. 2) That the night rates have long ago become a mockery, the drivers simply holding out for what they can get. Early in the evening they often inform prospective fares that they are on the way to their...
...Champion Tilden race and chase in taxi cabs...
...gaunt features. The curtain had just rung down on his matinee (That Smith Boy) and he* had an engagement even more pressing than seeing a manager at the Algonquin or sipping something cold in a friend's flat. He jerked on his overcoat, flung himself into a taxi, leaped out again at the Seventh Regiment Armory, where he plunged into a dense crowd of humanity and was seen no more, until he emerged in tennis costume on a brilliantly illuminated court surrounded by a crowd. There, for three hours, pausing sometimes to wipe honest sweat and perhaps a few remaining...