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...step gingerly into new legislation. Even the stoutest attackers of the bill admit that the conditions in a few states need federal correction, and the issue is the passage of a law strong and explicit enough to put the United States on a par with other countries. The comic episodes in the shadow of the sacred cod mask a tragedy of high minded people fighting themselves instead of the enemy...
...idea of a harem is the one frequently pictured in comic cuts, in which a worried sultan or equally worried eunuch is completely surrounded by a bored beauty chorus. Proud purists who know enough to pronounce harem "hareem" may have suspected that this picture was misleading. After conning Mr. Penzer's careful study of the Turkish harem as it once flourished in Constantinople, they can be sure...
APRIL-Vardis Fisher-Doubleday, Doran ($2). Idyll of a fat, poverty- stricken farm girl with princess yearnings; Idaho's novelist-laureate in a comic Valentine vein...
With an appealing tremble of her lower jaw, Miss Swarthout, smartly dressed, sings several songs. None of them is notable. Whatever merits Champagne Waltz possesses are dependent on the well-seasoned comic abilities of Jack Oakie, cast as Happy Gallagher, manager of the band. Badly befuddled by the ways of Europeans, Gallagher wanders through elaborate settings making remarks like "60 feet away you can't tell them apart and 60 days later you don't care. . . . All women drive you screwy except your mother and she drove your old man screwy." Best musical number: dream sequence of Johann...
While he was putting himself through medical school, he began to write for the comic papers-parodies, reviews, stories, plays-anything an editor would...