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...like. "You must have some vices--do you row?" or "Our family dates as far back as the first Liberty Loan drive!" Now and then it makes fun of the plot, which is as a Pudding book should. The book spent a good deal of time rounding out a comic character with a weakness for cross-word puzzles, which is either over or under-played by C. T. F. B. Lyon '27. You would think that with those extra letters, he could get somewhere with crossword puzzles, but evidently...
...find it somewhat difficult to express the indignation that I feel after reading the current issue of the Bean Pot. I do not expect a comic periodical to be dignified in tone nor entirely truthful. I look for a degree of exaggeration in its columns. Existing standards condone the lack of dignity and truthfulness which characterize many of these publications...
Bringing Up Father. For ten years, various travesties and musical digressions on the family of Mr. George McManus' comic strip have been trouping through the one-night stands. One of them has suddenly, and quite unaccountably, turned up in a Broadway theatre. Loud was the cynics' laughter. Manhattan will not endure for many nights a one- nightstand company dressed up in 42nd Street clothing. Both as to wit, music and performance the offering was generously condemned as the season's dead...
...curious and tiresome ramble among the tangled mental paths of idiocy. Such wanderings must be comic or terrible. The Dunce Boy was, unfortunately, both...
...Book Reviews" and the Theatre and Art comment in the Advocate's "Dial" number march under the same umbrella of solemnity that covers the originals they imitate, but with this difference--the elf of the comic spirit is calmly wagging his ears over each...