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Light, power, gas and traction companies operating in 98 New York cities were affected by a business deal last week. But the people in those cities felt no throb in the even running of their utilities...
HIGH GROUND ? Jonathan Brooks ? Bobbs Merrill ($2). Liberally educated in all the finer shades of political corruption, U. S. newsreaders have a ready sympathetic throb for the lone graft fighter. To Author Brooks such a figure looms so large that he ventures to draw the picture of an upstanding, small-city editor with solemn, biblical strokes. James Andrew Marvin, lonely Honest Man, is presented through the reverent chronicles of his five children (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Ruth). He emerges hard-hitting, high-minded, bad-tempered. Fighting heavily, with more goodwill than technique, he is defeated time...
...Senator Johnson chosen, he could have quoted Writer Hurst much further with potent effect. She, outstanding "throb" artist in U. S. fiction, at last had a subject which even her clotted vocabulary did not seem to burlesque. Other Hurstian patches on the strike were...
...course, proved innocent. Nor does she more than "understand" him, and he her, though other possibilities, and a deep-dyed hydraulic. company villain, stalking various tracts of real estate, suffice to complicate the prospects of Hero Anthony Garland, cultivated consumptive, until the last paragraph, where man and woman throb together on a mountain beholding the usual "promise of another...
...being acted again by Charles Gilpin. Theatregoers remember that, after the first season, Actor Gilpin's work was authoritatively acclaimed the finest acting of the year. Evidently the part has palled upon him, for his present work rings hollow, artificial. Yet for those who have never heard the throb of the tom-toms coming nearer, beating louder, ominously, faster, the play will prove a revelation of what can be done with mechanical atmosphere. At the Mayfair Theatre, it is preceded by a one-act satirical comedy, In 1999, William de Mille, author...