Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...musical play, the action of "The Desert Song" is intricate. Pierre Birabeau, played by Robert Halliday, is known in North African social circles as the half-wit son of Governor-General Birabeau. But this is only an assumed role; among the Riffs, Pierre is really none other than "The Red Shadow", a renegade white man who leads the natives on nocturnal forays. His dual activities are not suspected and they give him a lot of good harmless fun until love arrives in the attractive form of Miss Ethel Louise Wright as Margot Bonvalet, a visiting Parisienne...
...Manhattan of Agnes Maude Royden, famed English evangelist, head of the London Guildhouse, were prepared to find a large woman with little conversation and a big smile. They found instead a small, mercurial, unbeautified, talkative lady, leaning on a chestnut stick. She answered their questions readily and with wit. The reporters then told Agnes Maude Royden that her prospective lectures in Boston and Chicago (sponsored by the Methodist Woman's Home Missionary Society) had been canceled because of rumors that she smoked cigarets and that she also favored companionate marriage...
...silk, lullabies, wit, jokes: HIT THE DECK, A CONNECTICUT YANKEE, MANHATTAN MARY, GOOD NEWS, SHOW BOAT, FUNNY FACE...
...Favorite son of Oklahoma, mayor of Claremont, California, the humorist has been so long an important critic of politics that his qualifications as a practitioner are worthy of consideration. True he is a humorist, but he is a serious humorist. His comic spirit is no capricious tease, or polished wit, or jovial scholar, but the ghost of a shrewd, observant Yankee with twinkling eyes and pursed lips. It is the spirit of Mark Twain, or Josh Billings, or even Abraham Lincoln, people are saying. And his wit is surpassed only by his esoteric knowledge of his chosen field...
...humour, aboriginal in fact by the addition of a touch of Cherokee blood to remove the race prejudice. "Rogers is a statesman experienced, courageous, and safe and sound," said representative Howard in Congress in advocating his election. Certainly there is material in that body for the constructive wit of an enlivened Presidential spokesman. The Nation has honored his trip to Mexico. Liberty should endorse his grammatical standards, and his friend of Mayor Thompson his non-deference to ceremonial. In fact the only amusing thing about this projected campaign is the fact that it is not taken seriously...