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...Tell It To Sweeney", the Conklin-Bancroft opus at the Metropolitan this week, depicts the trials and tribulations of two temperamental throttle pushers at a rapid tempo. "Come on, Salome, get hot," shouts Cannon-Ball Casey, engineer de. luxe, to his sawed-off but antagonistic fireman, Luke Beamish, who blows off quite as much steam as either the classy "Oriole Limited" or the relic of the Gay Nineties, the "Isobel." And between "the greatest mistake since Vesuvius" and the little "pipesqueale" there materializes enough excitement to keep the two locomotives "throttle up" throughout most of the picture and the audience...
...diversion came to govern the sport. There grew to be two main divisions-the one called "bowling" or "ten-pins," playe'd now in indoor alleys by barflies and roustabouts; the other called "Bowls" or "Bowling-on-the-Green," a handsome recreation for gentlemen, a game which in tempo compares with other present-day exercises, as the courante compares to the Charleston. It is played now by members of the Elizabethan Club at Yale University, and by the members of many an old, austere and gentle club, who are too antique for the frantic antics of the pastimes practiced...
...original draft Minstrel Emmett put a few new touches, rhymed "cotton" and "forgotten," changed the tempo, handed his chief what he felt was a botched job. But next evening, the audience swayed to the new tune, caught the words easily, especially the "hoorays." It was one of those songs that people sing leaving the theatre. Soon the whole country sang it, echoing it into the end of last week...
...dawn the U. S. cruiser Memphis was steaming up the Potomac River. Soon people in Washington began to stir-in the temporary White House, President and Mrs. Coolidge, and Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh were arising. As the sun grew brighter and hotter, the tempo of the capital approached allegro. One hundred Army and Navy airplanes darted above and below and around the dirigible Los Angeles, like sharks baiting a whale. The guns of the presidential yacht Mayflower boomed a salute. Factory whistles shrieked. Nautical tunes bounded over the waters of the Potomac. The Memphis docked at the Navy Yard...
...dames and daughters of Vienna in the Vienna Opera House. But frowns of annoyance danced on his brow; he found the time too slow for his impetuous taste. Over the bobbing heads of the first violins he glared meaningfully at Conductor Karl Alwin, tried vainly to force a faster tempo. Suddenly the audience gasped, the musicians faltered. The brawny arms of Basso Chaliapin were beating out an aerial quick-step at the orchestra in the middle of a duet. Before the nervous and fascinated audience, Conductor Alwin brought the orchestra to order with a sweep of his baton, held...