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...been breaking in upon the great American devotional rites like a muddy dog at a church wedding. All the advertisements both fore and aft of the main matter are insidious variations on insidious originals. Regrettably, the editors have let their youthful spirits run away with them a bit in the main portion of the magazine, where they print a sprinkling of jokes and drawings that even a college humorous publication would have the taste to omit. Whether willingly or not, the monarchs of trade are having their false whiskers peeled off and their thrones jerked from under them; and still...
...board at Eton, which American private-school men so love to deify, was recently "covered with arrangements for a Boy Scout Camp and for subsequent attendance at a jamboree, because a Scout is a brother to every other Scout, no matter of what social class." Harrow has done its bit by offering the "Crompton Elocution Prize for Clear Speaking into a Microphone...
...ability of either actors or author; Miss Rachel Crothers does not show her hand until the second act. There have been innumerable drunk scenes paraded before the long-suffering theatre-goer, but their authors have rarely succeeded in the measure with which Miss Crothers does in this particular bit. Geoffrey Wardwell and Jay Fassett contribute remarkable performances as their share in this scene, and the author supplied them with excellent material, studded with laugh producing lines...
...Irishmen's expense TIME overlooks the fact that there were no potatoes in Ireland-or anywhere else in Europe-a thousand years ago. Will TIME forgive a slightly nauseated Irishman (Mick, Harp, Turkey, Flannel-mouth, if TIME prefers) if a mild passion for truth makes him a bit insensible to fun-loving TIME'S preference for what it deems to be humor...
...sister Mrs. Worthington Pfeiffer. Along came a policeman and handed Miss Bowen a summons. Miss Bowen tore up the summons, threw the pieces in the policeman's face, then slapped it. Over the head of a second policeman she broke a picture frame. The constable she bit. Her fine...