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...perhaps even that legendary figure, the Oldest Living Subscriber. From his letter, one would never think that he regularly perused those delightful chatter columns of Christopher Morley and P. Quercus which are distinguished features of the "Review." For he seems to be one of those unfortunate souls that are devoid of the sense of humor that characterizes the work of Messrs. Morley and Quercus...
...find it hard to stop him. What shall I do?-Despairing Pastor. Answer: You have a problem. Organists with insufficient training like to do those things. The flip of the finger over several keys, known as glissando, has been popularized by the radio comedians Jake and Lena, and organists devoid of taste are doing it in church. The same thing is true of the man who injects shaving-parlor chords into a hymn, and Sweet Adeline harmonization, and dominant-seventh Amens, and too much tremolo. . . . I should not permit him to play dizzy chromatics, or anything else, during the Lessons...
...course that progress constitute the thread the story, and Myron's whole life in 1897 to 1933 is bound up with his career as the slave of hospitality. His whole life is told in terms of hotels even his emotional experiences through his marriage (Effie May is totally devoid of color), and his musings are extricably bound up with ice water, phones in every room, and room service. The only variant note is struck the character of Ora Weagle, the higbrow and pseudo-poet, whose weakeness and essential meanness are so completely unredeemed by any winning ability that Mr. Lewis...
Life does not exist on Mars or any other solar planet except Earth, in the opinion of Dr. Walter Sydney Adams, director of Mt. Wilson Observatory. Mars, most propitious of Earth's neighbors, is not only inhospitably cold and scantily watered, but also almost devoid of oxygen. Some months ago Dr. Adams and Dr. Theodore Dunham Jr. trained spectroscopes on the red planet, computed that it has under 1% as much free oxygen as Earth...
...Maxie's manager, does a solid bit of work, and Otto Kruger, as Myrna's one-time gangster lover, is much more convincing than any Hollywood gangster has a right to be. The surprise of the thing, however, comes with the realization that Max Baer is not totally devoid of acting ability; even though a Vanity Fair author once characterized him as "so many pounds of perfectly coordinated muscle, all ably animated by the brain of a ten-year old child," he has outdone himself here it give a performance which you will enjoy. The pictures this week, both...