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Christmas presents are hung on a shoetree. Carols are proposed, " 'But don't bring Earl,'" says the laundress. A Princeton co-ed sisbooms "ad Nassaum." Yale sings "Beulah, Beulah." Funnyman Donald Ogden Stewart's technique is borrowed for an interview with Golfer Bobby Jones, aged one, in a lavatory. Pleased with himself, Mr. Lardner then interviews Horace Greeley in a bathtub. Toward the end of the book a Laplander lands in his lap. They marry and live in Gluten, N. Y. Divorce ensues. Queen Marie sings "Dat watahmelyon hangin' on de vine." He marries...
...devastating effect of the tabloids on public morals is shown by Beulah Stevenson in her "Purity," wherein are seen two horror-stricken women, drunk with the joy of morbidity. The headlines are not omitted, typical of the close-to-home-and-nature moralizing of the whole exhibit's soapbox eloquence...
...Beulah Lewis, widow, living alone, read the Atlanta Constitution until she got sleepy and then went up to bed, taking the cat with her. She was half undressed when the gentlemen in white began breaking down her front door. They roared when, having shot their way into the bedroom, the cat confronted them, licking nervous chops, on the top of a bedpost. One man fired from the hip; the cat tumbled off the post. The woman had fainted but they revived her. Then they stripped her, beat her unconscious...
...Rock Island, Ill., one Beulah Nichols, 16, guzzled gin, entered the bedroom of one W. H. Mahoney, 75; pointed a revolver at him, disrobed, put on Mr. Mahoney's clothes, forced him to cut her hair below a slouch cap, "hopped" a freight train with her "boy friend," rode to Galva, Ill., spent the day, "hopped" another freight train, "bummed" her way home, was received by her parents with open arms. Soon newsgatherers discovered that Beulah Nichols' mother is "Vashti Dale," author of articles for household magazines on "How to Train Girls...
...less than six Adamses are listed on the program, and before the final curtain falls, another one has been added. All of them cover their roles adequately. For real realism, however, they are not in a class with two minor characters. One of these, Maggie, played by Beulah Bondi, in the role of the servant who has been with the family so long that she has become, not a servant, but a retainer, fairly runs away with the show. The other, Frank Owens, nee Fleming Ward, adds the other true touch by playing the victim in the fight scene...