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...that would have delighted his learned and loquacious hero, Dr. Samuel Johnson. His discourse upon the typographical history of the Bible is no more pedantic than his bubbling monolog on Gilbert and Sullivan (in which it occurs to him that "we get lots of our ideas of government from comic operas and then take ourselves as seriously as Sitting Bull"). From "The Ghost of Gough Street" and "Shakespeare and the Old Vic" one gets a faintly disturbing impression of anglomania, soon dispelled by the mordant judgments of "Are Comparisons Odious?" (on English lecturers and tailors, French politeness and libraries, American...
...humor of the Lampoon is apparently infectious, for since Lampy's close association with the police last spring, the gentlemen of the force have shown signs of a perverted wit which is only to be attributed to their perusal of the comic magazine...
...cheering to encounter such positive evidence of the fact that the ancient aristocracy of "cusswords" is at last emerging from dark corners and being received publicly. Time was when all the stage knew was the use of the least harmful of all emphatic monosyllables solely for comic purposes. Writers like Mr. George Moore who perpetually deplore how foreign words and phrases are emasculating the English language, should be pleased to witness this reestablishment of words the lineage of which is as purely Anglo Saxon as that of any in the language...
...addition to its comic strips and editorials, the Chicago Tribune publishes on Sunday, a rotogravure section. Last Sunday, a photograph appeared therein of five people smiling at the cameraman through the glare of a midday sun from a piazza of the Westchester Biltmore Country Club of Rye, N. Y. The Tribune printed four names, from left to right, MacDonald Smith, Miss Maureen Orcutt, Miss Glenna Collett, Walter Hagen. Now behind this foursome of renowned golfers, on a step that made him clearly visible above their heads, stood a gentlemen. His well-brushed hair glistened in the sunlight. He wore...
Miss Brady is too fine an emotional actress to spread her comic talent over a whole evening as she does in Oh! Mama! She has to try to be funny...