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...BATS, a pair of bad boots...
...Which legs does a fly use to clean its middle pair?" "How many ounces of grass does a grasshopper eat in a day?" Miss Claribel R. Barnett, librarian of the Department of Agriculture, answers these questions and many like them, put by perplexed letter writers...
...time that he began life as a student of painting, lavished a for tune on a few exuberant weeks in Venice, and is a discerning judge of cocktails, tobacco, fabrics? Or in those of Hugh Walpole, when they discover that he is a genial and witty Englishman, with a pair of glasses on his nose and an admiration for Amer ica in general and for Jurgen and Seventh Heaven in particular? Reading a novel is, after all, like being told a story, except that you cannot see the teller. It is like a telephone conversation, only more so. It works...
...discussion of comic personality on the musical stage can be quite adequate without due homage to Jack Hazzard, whose sentimental song parody is one of the brighter moments in the Greenwich Village Follies, or the overpowering pair of lovebirds, Savoy and Brennan, or the cowboy wit, Will Rogers of the Ziegfeld Follies...
...villain fills us with the same sort of creepy horror that the tomb-like doctor does in the last-named play. Everyone shudders at a man who can make his pulse stop beating at will or who goes into a murderous fit at the sight of a pair of fire-tongs or can conceive and carry out such a devilish scheme of vengeance as this neo-maniac in "It is the Law". Mr. Hohi fills the part well; it is he who makes the play...