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...Behold the Bridegroom" can't quite be laughed off, much as one may feel the urge. From pure politeness appropriate in a non-paying guest, this reviewer suppressed a nearly uncontrollable desire to hoot, jeer and shout "ham" during one of the worst first acts in memory. Then for no apparent reason Mr. George Kelly began to make sense through the mouths of a competent, but sorely taxed cast. The final impression was more than ordinarily disturbing. Here was a play, like it or not, and in its worst moments it brought to mind the old sentiment, "I wouldn...
CUPS, WANDS AND SWORDS?Helen Simpson?Knopf ($2.50). The plot of this novel bears so exact a resemblance to the plot of Red Sky at Morning, most recent work of Author Margaret Kennedy, that, had the two books not been published almost simultaneously, there would have been an enormous hoot about plagiarism. These are the likenesses: both books are about mixed twins of dangerous heredity, who keep company with fashionable, questionable artists, who feel for each other a more than normally intense devotion; in both books the girl twin's marriage threatens this devotion, produces, in the Kennedy case...
Last week, a dull-faced, clumsy-looking man sat in his parlor; he was trying to entertain his friends. "Wait a minute." he told them, "I will get my accordion and play it for you." At this there was a soft hoot of derisive laughter. Girls nudged each other, men smirked and snickered. . . . Soon "Alf" came back into the room carrying an automatic "accordion" which he had purchased at the Mayfair Plaything Stores, in Manhattan. The instrument was beautifully made; it had cost $70, although a cheaper one could have been procured; it contained, completely hidden, a tone chamber made...
...corner) you will find little solace in it. Anyway, every play here was tried out two years ago in New Haven and was unanimously booed by the Student Council. The movies are open--wide open--if you care for that sort of thing. We recommend with reservation Hoot Gibson and without reservations, Hoot Gibson's horse. And then there is the Public Library; possibly you could pick up something there; only remember you're a Yale man and Yale men don't do that sort of thing...
...confine your letters published to criticisms of your paper, corrections of news items, etc. and leave out letters such as those of Mary Elizabeth Robinn in TIME, Feb. 7? What average reader cares a "hoot" about this doubtless estimable lady's "virginity" or whether she's married or not? What readers like is NEWS, not personalities...