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...Frank Moulan, as the Executioner, is even cleverer, if less Gilbertian. A wizened-eyed little wisp of a man, he capers about constantly, kicking up such a breeze with his furious fanning that he all but blows himself into the wings. He takes frequent encores by singing the most irreverent variations on the text, translating "The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring, Tra-La" into every dialect but the Scandinavian. He expands the patter-song "I've Got a Little List" to include the more recent nuisances. Even in Gilbert's day this song was progressively altered to include...

Author: By G. G. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/13/1932 | See Source »

Like the ghostly emanations once thought to hover around dead bodies, posthumous books still give their authors a kind of ghostly currency. So frequent and lively have been the emanations from the late prolific Edgar Wallace that his publishers have had to issue a denial that a ghost was writing them and an admission that more are still to come. But in the case of David Herbert Lawrence these two books are the windup of his literary affairs. Any further remarks from the tomb can hardly affect his reputation one way or the other. Until the critic grave-robbers begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Leif the Lucky to Lincoln | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

...account of the confusion and distress of the times." Then it was that the College moved en masse to Concord "with all convenient speed," and one student who was absent during the whole Concord session, pleaded that he had "been found guilty and imprisoned by the General Court, for frequent clamoring, in the most impudent, insulting, and abusive language, against the American Congress." But the poor fellow was alone in his opinions, and was informed that he was no longer a member of the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

Columbia University, a frequent U. S. commemorator, was to have opened a library exhibit of Scottiana, with items loaned by Owen D. Young and John P. Morgan. Because of delay in printing catalogs it was postponed until Oct. 1. But one Scott celebration did come off last week, surprisingly enough in the Hebrew Cultural Gardens in Rockefeller Park in Cleveland, an enterprise designed by the Cleveland Gan Ivri League (Hebrew Garden League, a woman's organization) to include symbolic German, Italian and Polish gardens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Scott Centenary | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...frequent inquiry is made by people interested in science as to how they can donate their pets to the cause of research. A regular occurrence is the question of what is the correct pronunciation or spelling of some word, such as beret. Once the office was asked whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable. It replied in the negative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Information Bureau Flooded With Bizarre Queries About Everything From Divorces to Spelling, as Well as Buildings | 9/28/1932 | See Source »

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