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...private office of the Clerk of Cook County (Chicago), the Earl of Northesk obtained a license to marry Jessica Brown, formerly of the Follies. The special correspondent of The New York Times quoted the Earl as having said: "Oh, I say, can't this be done with a bit of decent quietness, don't you know ?" This is an excellent example of stupid and slovenly reporting. The Earl does not talk that way; the special correspondent of the Times made the Earl say what he (the correspondent) thought an Englishman would...
...critics for the benefit of themselves and their friends. His act "in one" (all by himself) where he comes before the curtain and reads the Treasurer's report of finances, is rated as supreme burlesque. He will repeat it in the Music Box and do a bit with Frank Tinney, as well...
...from the Folies Bergeres with chorines suspended in it quite literally, by the skin of their teeth-a Jewel Shop number calculated by its extravagant gorgeousness to drive impecunious husbands quite insane- a number on Prohibition-a resurrection of Tut-Ankh-Amen with everything there but the fly that bit Lord Carnarvon...
...author-to-be of The Parody Outline of History, et cetera, bit into a muffin viciously, interrupting me at the same time. "Of course I can write!" said he, and, thereupon, went...
...Southworth? Rosa Nouchette Carey? Charles Garvice? No. But their most recent successor in the paper-back-thriller field-the anonymous authors of The True Story Series, published by Macfadden Publications, Inc. Hail to the two-bit novel redivivus! The passage that tops this column is from The Truth About a College Girl...