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...invites at every step the astonishment of the visitor, seducing him with expense and weight, crushing him under its firm assertion of authority. All of which adds nothing of delight or of value to the objects exhibited-nothing, that is to say, which could not have been added simply, directly, unpretentiously, at one tenth of the cost. . . . [It] is the death mask of an ancient culture...
Everyone on Broadway except the child actors remembers Percy Hammond, either with delight or something approaching brainstorm. Last week a few of Percy Hammond's intimates had gift copies of a new collection of his work. This Atom In The Audience (his own phrase), privately printed by his free-lancing son John Hammond of Newtown, Conn. Other envious Hammond admirers were tickled to learn that the book could be had on order from bookstores generally...
Died. William Danforth, 73, roaring, scowling delight for half a century of U.S.' Savoyards; after long illness; in Skaneateles, N.Y. Triple-tonguing Songster Danforth estimated he had sung the title role in The Mikado 1,000 times...
Then came the surprise-one of those studied slips of inside dope, those discreet indiscretions, which so delight the Prime Minister: "Not only German U-boats but German battle cruisers have crossed to the American side of the Atlantic and have already sunk some of our independently routed ships not sailing in convoy. They have sunk ships as far west as the 42nd meridian of longitude...
Edith Sitwell (by her own proclamation) has no sense of humor. But all the Sitwells are prankish as hippogriffs. Osbert's impish autobiographical notes in Who's Who are said to freeze the other Sitwells into stoney stares of amusement. All three delight in caressing authors and critics they do not like with their individual or corporate paws. Edith once called a poem of John Masefield's "dead mutton" and Poet Cecil Day Lewis "an electric drill with the electricity left out." She and Osbert presented prizes to "the authors most representative of the tedious literature...