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This once-funny comic passes...
...Beard also flayed Congress for "frittering away thousands of precious hours on petty and trifling bills"; for "turning executive officers loose" under too general laws; for barring Cabinet members from floor debates; for "comic opera" procedure...
...there is O'Neill who will save the theatre from complete disintegration because he has "size." As for Barry, Kelley, Green, and Howard, Mr. Nathan disposes of them as a "dramatic barbershop quartette." In Vincent Lawrence, on the other hand, he finds the most gifted of present day comic-dramatists. From the rest," . . . we get the current liberal smear of pseudo-profound poppycock dealing with burnt-cork Spinozas, flapper Margaret Sangers, Strindbergian street-walkers and doughboy Bismarcks...
...already been intimated that there were two Jacksons who were at that time making the tour of New England. One was the person whom I have endeavored to describe (Quincy had written at some length about Jackson), the other may be called the Jackson of comic myth, whose adventures were minutely set forth by Mr. Jack Downing and his brother humorists. The Harvard degree, as bestowed upon this latter personage, offered a situation which the chroniclers of the grotesque could in no wise resist...
...that would let her high-strung brother know that his wife is the peer's mistress. There are possibilities in the idea, in spite of clumsy direction, but whatever possibilities there are Miss Chatterton lah-de-dahs out of existence. Typical moment of embarrassment, introduced as comic relief: Lady Kilkerry shooting craps with two U. S. sailors...