Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...write on some subjects I have come to the sage conclusion that you are suffering from the gout...
...still showing antagonism to a man of German birth, as though that is the main fault in his writings. You show plainly your narrowed, bigoted, insulting mind, when you write a review such as you did in TIME. What difference does it make whether his parents were German or Yiddish or English or anything. I am not a German, but an American and I still will give due credit to an enemy, if he deserves...
Puppy Love. Anne Nichols, who produced Abie's Irish Rose, has a new one. She did not write it, but from the looks of things she had a lot to do with the rewriting. The farce has all the old tricks you can think of and here and there a new one. It is so synthetic, so obviously manufactured for the easy laugh, that the testy old critics did not like it. Neither did they like Abie's Irish Rose, which has now played some 1,500 consecutive performances in Manhattan. The plot is about a young boy, the girl...
...that read: "Upon secret written ballot the Court sentences the accused to be suspended from rank, command and duty, with forfeiture of all pay and allowances, for five years" (Time, Dec. 28). Col. Mitchell's adherents had been hoping that the President would delete that "five" and write "two" or perhaps "three." They had maintained that "forfeiture of all pay" established a dangerous precedent. For though Col. Mitchell's was the case of a wealthy man, another man might some day find himself, not only subjected to the orders of non-commissioned officers, but (being still under orders...
...controlled gentlemen fell upon W. Franke Harling, the composer, as he was leaving the opera house and showered him with hugs and kisses. Composer Harling declared, in a trembling speech, that he was astounded. Nothing like that, he said, had ever happened to him-not even when he was writing cabaret revues in New York. But this incident and the opera-an amiable work, catchy, shrewd, imitative-brought him to the attention of Arthur Hopkins, famed theatrical manager. Mr. Hopkins has never yet produced a musical piece, but he stated four years ago that when the time was ripe...