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...farcical elements in Miss Crothers' play are better than the dramatic and comic. As Husbands Go has one excellent character, Lucile's crackbrained, ridiculously indiscreet friend (Catherine Doucet). When told that Mr. Lingard and the poet have become horribly drunk together, she says complacently: "Well, I know- but they're just...
...show's torch song and wanders hopelessly away. In America's Sweetheart, however, when Jack Whiting sees that his girl friend (Harriette Lake) is about to throw him over for a big cinemagnate, he breaks into a sullen soft-shoe dance with Gus Shy, the comic, and then irritably pushes Miss Lake into a fountain...
...young London bank clerk (this story is in the nature of comic relief), just fired for incompetence, celebrates with an orgy of shopping, orders everything sent to a vacant house, the bill to his peppery uncle; by some miracle escapes arrest...
...master of his subject and proves conclusively that for sheer lucidity and clarity nothing can equal manual gesticulation a la Jane Cowl. All of which fits in paradoxically with the fact that Mr. Thurber's humor is the product of delicate, well constructed prose seldom equaled by modern American comic writers...
Followers of lovable, philosophical, hell-raising Skippy, comic-strip youngster, are prone to think of his creator as somewhat like Skippy's own comic-strip father. By that token, Cartoonist Percy Leo Crosby might be a tall, gentle, softspoken man with dark hair and a cropped moustache. Readers with that misconception of Cartoonist Crosby took something of a jolt last week when they saw in the New York World a full page of anti-Prohibition tirade headed: "This Space Bought by Percy Crosby Because He Believes That Any Issue, Affecting the Welfare of the Nation, Should Never Be Straddled...