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The live wire of the production is Julius H. Marx. His aura is that of the Five Points, and his language is the patois of the unwashed, but he makes things go with a bang; and a refined Boston audience laughed with him continuously for two hours and seventeen minutes...

Author: By G. P. I, | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/13/1925 | See Source »

In cosmopolitan Paris there can be found some people to proclaim anyone or anything from Voliva of Zion City to the Great Cham of Tartary. Such demonstrations cannot be taken, therefore, with the naive faith the newspapers seem to accord them. They do, however, feed the popular fear that every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEWHISKERED BUGBEARS | 12/6/1924 | See Source »

During the seven years of Bolshevik control, an extraordinary gullibility has possessed the Russian people. It has been easy for them to accept shadows for reality. "You are free," shouted the dictator. And the multitude took up the cry: "Yea, we are free." "State education for every child," promised the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APOSTATE EMMA | 11/13/1924 | See Source »

Detective stories are really the only form of literature which strikes a common chord in the hearts of all readers. They are read by the intelligentsia, the middle classes, and the great unwashed. Under the circumstances, it is strange that there are so few good mystery stories. Sir Conan Doyle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAKING MYSTERIES | 10/18/1924 | See Source »

Chaffing the unwashed there,

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stirring Torchlight Parades Marked College Campaigns Half-Century Ago | 10/10/1924 | See Source »

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