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...years, faces have come and gone, but the club itself has remained much the same: its air of worn brown leather, almost unused elevator, ancient chandeliers, cluttered rooms, classic busts and beery mugs, walls crowded with faded photographs and playbills-an "old uncle of a house," as Booth Tarkington described it. Still kept just as he left it- except that the bedsheets are said to be changed occasionally-is the room where Booth lived & died. In tall wall-safes lie carefully preserved costumes and relics of Booth and other actors...
...this, in the old days lusty, ingenious, scatterbrained. Wilder seeks to recapture in a period spoof that is just short of burlesque. He neatly touches his stock characters and classic antics with quaintness and whimsical fancy. At his best, he gives The Merchant of Yonkers the nostalgia as well as the noise of an oldfashioned German street band. Where most modern farces have a hard, alcoholic hilarity, The Merchant of Yonkers for two acts romps and lets fly with all the innocence of a pillow fight. One of the best casts of the season throws the pillows for all they...
Ruppel himself set the pace in the page-one headlines, which he always wrote. A Ruppel classic: "GOODNIGHT MY DARLING" (in white across a full-page cut of William Powell leaving Jean Harlow's funeral...
Judging his 1937 Pulitzer Prizewinner, The Flowering of New England, "the most likely to become a classic" of all books published in the last three years, the Limited Editions Club presented eminent Critic Van Wyck (rhymes with "bike") Brooks with a gold medal...
...Ferdinand the Bull" the Disney touch is added to a book that is already a classic, and the result is no better but just as good. In the third movie "Torchy" is a woman detective...