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Certainly he would like to laugh. He realizes that the Evening Post's dramatic critic is very amusing, but, in his Victorian way, he is not amused. How can he be happy spiritually when his physical needs are so great? How can he laugh when his back aches or his feet complain...
...real name is Janet Planner. She was born in Indianapolis 47 years ago. In her teens Janet tried the University of Chicago; tried by the University, she returned to Indianapolis. From 1915 to 1917 she held a job as cinema critic (she thinks she was the first reporter with that title) on the Indianapolis Star. In 1921 she arrived in Paris, inquisitive, amiable, amused. In 1925 she wrote her first letter for The New Yorker...
...spring showing by members and nonmembers of the National Sculpture Society. Of some 185 pieces shown, many would have looked well on a moonlit night behind a fishpond, half covered with ivy. None bore the Whitney Museum's excellent lighting with enough distinction to turn a critic's head. The medal-winner: a reddish marble mother toting a limp child whose build resembled that of a miniature track champion. The sculptor: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, lady bountiful to the Whitney Museum and the National Society of Sculptors...
...quieter younger set. With Jane Bryan, Margaret Lindsay, Beverly Roberts, Lew Ayres, John Arledge and others, they play games, eat cheese and crackers, listen to Joan's puns, which come every few minutes. Typical pun was struck off while Katharine Cornell and Guthrie McClintic were discussing what fun Critic George Jean Nathan has tearing them apart. Quipped Joan: "South of the Nathan and Dixon line, eh?" Sometimes admiring Brian Aherne begs Joan to repeat a pun she has almost forgotten...
Thomas Dorgan, legislative agent for the City of Boston, and arch critic of the appointment of Bertrand Russell to the post of lecturer at Harvard is holding his free until he receives a reply from his letter to President Conant...