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...regarded this hesitancy as the result of sitting on the fence too long, which would seem likely to result in emasculation. The glaring grammatical errors in this review seemed to suggest that another factor was involved: the sheer inability to write English. Assuming that these are due to slipshod proof-reading, and passing over such phrases as "ratiocinative circumstances" etc. we come to the real meaning of the review...
...romantic operettas are compounded of essentially the same ingredients, but it requires the touch of the master to mix them, and flavor to the right taste. That such a long piece as "show Boat" does not wear on the spectator is ample proof that Ziegfield knew how to alternate his music, his choruses, and his skits, and above all he knew the settings to render each most effective. The scenes before the tent of the shimmy dances, in the 1892 World's Fair in Chicago, the aberations of Captain Andy Hawks, and the hawklike watchfulness of his termagant wife...
...Heckle-Proofed. From Iowa's 102 counties careful Hooverizers had picked 10,000 good Republicans who were admitted only by card to the Coliseum?a friendly, heckle-proof audience. The President's appeal to them, always earnest, sometimes touching, was for understanding and appreciation. Out of its sing-song monotony his voice occasionally lifted to a tremulous note...
...human appeal, and the high quality of the directing and acting. "I am no playwright," Richard Harrison concluded, "but I can tell a good play, when I see it, and I have seen many plays ruined by inadequate acting. No play is foolproof all the way through, or actor proof...
...Fallodon, near the Scottish border, Lord Grey has established two duck sanctuaries, in & about two small ponds surrounded by high fox-proof fences. There he feeds his ducks twice a day, many of them eating from his hand. All are wild ducks, free to come & go as they please, but at Fallodon they have become tame. There are some 200 ducks of 20-odd species. Says Frank Michler Chapman, curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History, in an introduction to Lord Grey's article...