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From the rise of the second-act curtain to the end of the play the comedy is delightful. If the romantic moments fail to convince one of the sincerity of Ronnie as much as the "in vino veritas" moments of the drinking scene, it is not entirely the actor's fault. Where Miss Crothers' pen strays from the high road of comedy into her beloved bypaths of sentimentality the play is decidedly less interesting and certainly less well acted. At several points there is the dread possibility that sentimentality may prevail, but by a miracle the demon is kept just...
...Ancona, Italy, firemen rushed to a burning house, found no water with which to extinguish the flames. Ancona's ingenious firemen attached their hose to a barrel of wine, put out the fire with vino rosso...
...months ago an independent California concern went a step farther toward simplified wine making. They put on the market a patented grape concentrate in solid form about the size of a pound of print butter. Known as Vino Sano, selling at $2 each, these nonalcoholic wine bricks were flavored sherry, champagne, port, claret, muscatel, et al. Instructions came in the form of warnings against dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, adding sugar, shaking daily and decanting after three weeks. Unless the buyer eschewed these processes, 13%, wine would be produced. Vino Sano's "Don'ts" were...
Last week U. S. Dry agents, spurred by complaints of the Anti-Saloon League, raided Vino Sano's sales office on lower Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, where a land office trade was being done. Arrested were the manager and two salesmen; seized were 3.000 bricks...
Thus was started what promises to be a major court test of Section 29 and the flourishing business of urban wine-making in the home. Karl Offer, national manager of Vino Sano, wired Attorney General Mitchell from California that he alone was responsible for the wine bricks and wanted to be included in any forthcoming indictments. He also sought the legal assistance of Mrs. Willebrandt, Vine-Glo's counsel, in working up a defense for his employes, but that lady enigmatically replied: "Sorry, but I never take Prohibition cases...