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...Robe," at the Shubert, gets under way in the second and third, and areas through to a place well up among the "Vagabond kings" and "Student Princes" of historical musical comedy. Its source is "Under the Red Robe," the novel of twenty years ago by Stanley Weyman, and its plot, if you are a stickler about things like that, is so definite as to inspire bold-faced play acting by Cardinal Richelieu, in the person of Jose Ruben. Add his name to the sedentary principals who have dared do their historical atmosphere well, and have gona unapplauded...
...returned from Europe last week. His weightiest statement was that his French consulting engineer and agent, Signor Bugatti, "the greatest automobile engineer in Europe," will produce a car twice as big as the Packard Eight. Its wheelbase will be 176 in., its speed 120 miles an hour. The Weyman Body Co. of London and Paris will build a factory at Indianapolis, Ind. Last week at least one newspaper of every large U. S. city carried a full page advertisement, whose streamer headline reads: HOW THE VISION OF ONE MAN revolutionized the trend, of American Automobile Design...
General Pershing and Captain Weyman of the U. S. cruiser, Denver, upon which General Pershing is scheduled to return to the U. S., boarded the Cleveland and conducted General Lassiter to a luncheon...
...romance written frankly for pleasure and excitement. Sabatini is not at all "the modern Dumas" as some critics insist on calling him. He doesn't write in the grand manner of the great Frenchman, but rather on the smaller, but often equally exciting scale of Stevenson and Stanley Weyman. The Sea-Hawk is accurate and picturesque in history; but it never drags or preaches or forces historical scholarship or tedious archaisms upon the reader...
...Laid up in Lavender," by S. J. Weyman...