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...West has swallowed the Hyman-Welly show, and Patricia cannot be found. In some small mountain town she is doing her stuff for the dusty miners, unconscious of a higher destiny among the gaudy longshoremen at Long Beach...
Correspondents were in accord as to the new Senator's dialect. He said for himself: "I ain't ignorant and a lot of this stuff that you read in the papers making me say things I didn't is all bunk. ... I didn't say that I didn't give a dam about books. I mean, I didn't say it that way. Some books ain't worth readin' and some are. I ain't got much time for 'em, but I would read 'em if I had time to read 'em.'' As for his favorite author, he declared...
...symbol for sinful frivolity in New York, Junction City and Pleasantville. So he told the hotel porter and the porter got him a ticket for a real good show at a theatre possibly named the Vaudeville. "Ah," thought the American, practicing a wicked wink. Now ] 11 see some snappy stuff! " He went?and discovered himself viewing a gay little piece entitled Pasteur, a review of that scientist's early life and struggles, all full of the most interesting information on pasteurizing, but with not a pair of gilt slippers or a double-entendre in the cast. So, just to avoid...
...stuff!" remarked a student on June third as he finished his report comparing Milton's Hell with Dante's inferno...
...obviously written as a farce, instead of playing it in the more usual " Oh Lord, here's a classic!" manner, seemed highly successful. As successful as could be, considering the fact that most of the Elizabethan cross-fire and comic patter, has, like nearly all good topical stuff, lost much of its sting with the passage of the slang and catchwords of its day. The plot (mistaken identities) was, of course, a hardy perennial even before Shakespeare- and there are few " familiar quotations " in the Comedy of Errors to help or hinder the audience into a feeling that they...