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...also plays at least 15 musical and questionable instruments, to wit: banjo, fiddle, guitar, French harp, tenor guitar, ukulele, trumpet, accordion, piano, twelve-string guitars, Jew's-harp, dulcimer, five-string banjo, hand saw, rubber gloves, "and a tune I makes by just slopping against my cheeks with my hands." Tobalcker & Opry. How she acquired these abilities is something of a mystery, even to Cousin Emmy. She was born, next youngest of eight children, 12 miles from the nearest railroad at Lamb, Ky.-the family lived in a two-room log cabin which "had cracks between the walls...
People who do not get seasick find seasickness uproariously funny. People who do get seasick want to die. Wit is no longer witty, companionship no longer desirable. They want to be alone. Then they want something to hang on to while they go through the misery of turning themselves inside out. When they are convalescent, they feel at peace. But sometimes it takes a long time to convalesce...
There is no doubt whatever about the justice of this comment. The play is frightful. Though concerned with the private life of a stripteaser, Playwright Lee has snubbed her recollections, which might have been gay and rackety, to indulge her imagination, which is chaotic, and display her wit, which is calamitous. Her Honey Bee Carroll (Joan Blondell) inhabits an insane world of trained dogs, live monkeys, mauve milliners, thieving ladies'-room attendants-a world that Gypsy never makes funny and somehow manages to make sexless...
...Poison on the Pen. Author Aldington inherited that spirit: his bitter anti-war autobiographical novels (Death of a Hero, Roads to Glory) were contributions to it. And though he condemns it in The Duke its lingering traces poison his biography with a wit which seems studied and dutiful, a shamefacedness before an unequivocal salute to a great man, and a hesitancy in striking out the dull gossip and malice. Only in his last chapters does Richard Aldington drop the irrelevancies of sophisticated comment and let himself go in praise of the "distant but steady beacon of common sense" whose simple...
...style was equally unorthodox. Like his friendly enemy in a lifelong battle of wits, Bernard Shaw, Chesterton delighted in weaving his strictures against the unorthodox in a web of paradoxical wit. To freethinkers he said: "You are armed to the teeth and buttoned up to the chin with the great agnostic Orthodoxy, perhaps the most placid and perfect of all the orthodoxies of men. . . . I approach you with the reverence and the courage due to a bench of bishops...