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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crimes defined . . . shall be punished as herein prescribed: First, when committed upon the high seas. . . .-U. S. Criminal Code, Sect...
Murray Anderson's Almanac is a happy though pretentious volume of which the first illuminated pages cast scorn upon the antiquities of the U. S. theatre and the latter, through the agencies of Jimmy Savo, Trixie Friganza, Roy Atwell and Fred Keating, celebrate in the most conventionally spectacular manner the excellencies of the contemporary revusical. Whatever may be the faults of the contemporary revusical, such entertainments usually profit from the services of a superlative clown, and Jimmy Savo is such...
...autumn. She hopes to round out a half-century before retiring. Not sad to her is the thought of what a volatile young thing she used to be. Still volatile, she refuses to think backwards, even to the bird-and-bottle parties at Delmonico's which were lavished upon chorus girls in the age of gallantry. To old codgers in club windows she leaves the memory of how she first starred in Pearl of Peking (1889). Her business is "the laugh business," which she studies seriously. Her last success before this one was Lavinia in Hit the Deck...
...spare his son, the Tsarevitch Alexius, such pangs of doubt, had the boy murdered. He also decapitated one of his mistresses, Mary Hamilton, and delivered an anatomical lecture on her head. Withal, savage Peter was called "The Great." Last week on the white sands at Biarritz it remained incumbent upon Spain's fashionably tanned Alfonso XIII to state clearly which of Peter I's gargantuan examples he would like to follow "if it could be done...
...Gallery in Vienna, famed as "the most valuable private collection in Europe." Last week, with nothing to conceal for the first time in at least a generation, Prince Franz von und zu Liechtenstein. Due de Troppeau, Prince et Due de Jägerndorf, celebrated in his castle by conferring upon his twice-wedded wife the proud title "Countess of Vaduz...