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Show I u I r'rTP 1 ; u 7 J i I vAailiivjiu.N, u. .May ol. Augustus Thomas came into fame as the author of "Arizona," a very good cld-fnahioned melodrama. Incidentally Incidental-ly ho is about the most popular man ' In the Lambs and Players club3. The! wife of our new secretary of state, I Bainbridgo Colby, is Augustus Thorn-j as' sister. I So, of course, there was a box party1 i at the National tho other night when' they were .putting on a try-out of a new comedy by Thomas. Among those present was Mrs. Hunt of Now York, who was formerly Mrs, Kirk La Shollc, I who was Gus Thomas' first backer ana business manager. Isn't it queer how (hlngs- happen In this small world? i ! How mad Will Hays did mako thoso Republicans down In Delaware! Heck led by the "ladles" of tho Woman's party, Hays said; "Everything has been done that properly can bo done. To got any more Republican votos would mean that we would havo to buy them." "That settles me,' said ono of the Irish Republicans who had been wavering wav-ering toward tho amendment. "If I vote for it now I will have to admit that I havo been bought." Alice Paul msikes no secret of her opinion that Will Hays has boon for weeks doing his best to "double-cross" the amendment. Tho text of the decision in the case of "In re Jackson," rendered a short,' time ago by the federal court for the district of Montana, has been received. receiv-ed. Speaking of tho department of justico handling of deportation caecs, the court says: "They (Palmer and hlB agents) aro tho spirit of intolerance incarnate, and tho most alarming manifestation In America today. Thoughtful nlen who lovo this country and its Institutions eoo moro danger In them and in tholr practices and the government by hysteria hys-teria thoy stimulate than In tho miserable mis-erable hated 'Reds' that are the ostensible os-tensible concern of them all." |