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...nineties, this "Gazette" was a power in the land. Then all America, save for wicked Manhattan, was one vast hinterland. Men gathered their families under mansard roofs; little girls in gingham and pigtails kicked their high shoes against the scrollwork of the porch. When the broad highway was muddy wagon track, men made no stir to journey afield. The village bar answered a man's thirst; and in the village barber-shop every voice had its part...
During the last half-century, while the band-wagon of scientific progress has been rambling along, accumulating its balloon-tires, free-wheeling, and Wizard Controls, one little-known industry has been loitering by the wayside, gathering its hibiscus in shameful dalliance. These delinquents are the men who make Keys-to-the-City. Other locksmiths have been hard at work, stiffening bank-vaults against the professional marauder, fashioning Yale locks against the casual inebriate, while municipal keys have continued in the mold of the mediaeval rathaus...
While "epics" to compare with such pictures as "The Big Parade," "The Covered Wagon," "The Thief of Bagdad," "Ben-Bur," and other monstrous productions will probably not be attempted for the present, the moviegoer is still justified in anticipating some excellent programs in the future...
Distant Drums. Scene of this eagerly written play is the old Oregon Trail. A wagon train of pioneers, finding itself behind schedule on the trek to the fertile fields of the Pacific, decides to take a short cut across the Idaho highlands. Most of the company are prosaic folk. One, however, is not. She is Eunice Wolfhill, young wife of the expedition's leader. He has married her so he can claim an extra 300 acres of Government land. She has married him for no apparent reason. Her fluttery, unnatural behavior leads the others to whisper that she has witch...
...around the edge of Longacre Square. At the head of the line is a large truck with electric lights ablaze, from which each one receives a sandwich, a doughnut, a cup of coffee. On the side of the truck a sign blazons: "New York American Christmas & Relief Fund Lunch Wagon." For placing a breadline (the American calls it a "sandwich line") in the most con- spicuous spot he could find, Publisher William Randolph Hearst has drawn bitter condemnation from a variety of sources. Showmen declared that the spectacle of misery at the doors of their theatres caused strollers to change...