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...ditty .entitled, Be My Charm Mama, and I'll Be Your Soda Pop. But alas! there are no such songs. For this production, not a musical comedy, seeks to explore further the vein of Merton of the Movies, The Show Off-to be gracious, tactful, gay- in short, to be charming. The first act-the most amusing first act of the current season-achieves this, but in the second the plot lifts its girlie-girlie face, and ghosts of the unsung ballads interrupt the accomplished small-town gabbing of Maidel Turner, and the adept gaucheries of Drug Clerk Kenneth...
Captain Ludovici is answered in much the same vein from a far-flung Anglo-Amazonian outpost by the second wife of the Hon. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, lately-retired scholar of Cambridge University...
...nonetheless Siki improved in health. It was found that after all his jugular vein had not been severed. His wife came to call on him and he demanded "clo's." She opined that he had best remain in the hospital for a while in pajamas. It appeared, after she had gone, that he did not acquiesce in her proposal. He fixed his eye on a press observer who was standing near by. Siki staggered weakly out of bed, seized the reporter's arm for support, marched out of the hospital, into the street. There he hailed a taxicab...
...Richmond, Va., now 51, tries not to pretend. Her materials, as early as The Voice of the People (1900) and The Miller of Old Church (1911), have been the roots and sap of human experience, treated not clinically but with a gracious hardihood. If it is in the romantic vein to regard fortitude and other sombre virtues as cultivable. Romanticist she is. But that distinction is unimportant. The great pity is that so painstaking, firm-handed a laborer has not yet the genius to discover native plants and feel them growing inevitably, of themselves...
Query? Is this publication rightly named? Ought it not to be called "The Polican"? The wholesome vein of incisive self criticism suggests not the gadfly but that other mythical creature that pecks out its own heart to feed posterity with the blood of its own wretchedness. It is a good thing for any community to be required from time to time to watch a procession of "penitentes" scourging their own backs. It saves the rest of us from the worst of all sins, the slo of complacency