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...ignorant wop and the gangster...
...play from Floyd Dell's The Unmarried Father will be called The Little Accident. The Private Life of Helen of Troy will at last be made public on the stage. Sam H. Harris, no relative of Jed, will exhibit the Marx Brothers, Harpo (mum), Groucho (chattering), Chico (wop) and Zeppo in Animal Crackers. Arthur Hammerstein plans a "musicalization" of Alice in Wonderland. George C. Tyler will produce Macbeth with Margaret Anglin, Lyn Harding and settings by Gordon Craig. Anne Nichols threatens with Abie's Children and a musical version of Just Married. Florenz Ziegfeld has enticed Ina Claire...
...prose material includes two or three articles of varying length, subject, and merit; a story of considerable length on Latin America, the sea, revolution and a wop sailor with an O. Henry ending which is even less convincing than the rest of the story; and finally an essay on one of the minor incidents in the life of Alexander Pope, "Vendetta," by J. E. Barnett, which is probably the high light of the entire issue. It is a straightforward, readable account of Pope's literary feud with Lady Wortley Montagu--an account which is attractive chiefly, perhaps, because its pretensions...
...nasty trick of war, a "big Wop from Peoria," Tony Rickey, became the hero of this story. In boyhood, he was a bootblack. In youth, he founded the National Bug-Killer Co., which rented to thousands of farmers, by mail, a machine guaranteed to kill each & every insect or worm. The machine consisted of two blocks of wood-"you put the bug you wanted to kill on one block and squashed him with the other." Rental $2. Tony disappeared when the Postoffice got inquisitive, and left Deacon Miscombe holding the bag. In War, Aviator Tony annoyed a German sausage balloon...
Soon, amid pandemonium, 25 Russians were ejected, including Andrew Tolstoy who was marched roughly into the street by Patrolman Higginson. "He says," the patrolman told reporters, "that he is related to some Wop Count that's dead, and used to write books...