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...constantly being met with theatrical fodder. Is Zat So? deals with prizefighting, and The Poor Nut with a track meet. The fight and the quarter-mile run are exhibited on the stage. Both are successes. Solid Ivory turns to baseball, and borrows in the process something of the slang sorcery of Ring Lardner...
...present Mr. Eaton is engaged in a country-wide crusade against stage slang such as appears in "The Butter and Egg Man," "Is Zat So?," and other New York successes. His contention is that plays using such slang, though sometimes really worth while, will never live, simply because in a few years, these slang phrases will have changed, and will be entirely unintelligible to the theatre audiences ten years hence...
...eminent professor's idea is a good one: to denounce slang in terms of slang; to turn the enemy's own guns upon him. But the campaign might well be carried further by the embattled members of the Society for the Preservation of Pure English. George Ade, with his "Fables in Slang" could be given a chair in the Department of Classics; Ring Lardner should be appointed to a professorship in English; and Rube Goldberg ought immediately to be elected president of the Advocate...
...Slang must be squelched. Now that jargon has been shown up, let it at once be given the gate...
...Sharp and boisterous fable in slang about a couple of prize-fighters in society...