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...lisande-she shared honors with Bernhardt, Duse, Ellen Terry. She knew everybody in England, from Oscar Wilde to Edward VII. She was fearless and formidable, a woman who shared her love letters with the world, who had atrocious manners but a superb air, and a wit that Shaw himself might envy...
...Hawk used it for a full hour in the most relaxed and sincere style that I've heard since his One Hour with Red McKenzie eleven years ago. But Hawk agreed with me that the stuff today is, definitely not relaxed or sincere like it used to be, to wit: Count Basie's rough house rhythm, Jimmy Dorsey's twittering saxophone, and Kostelanetz's weeping violin cadenzas. He went on to say that he reads my column faithfully every week and shows it around Gotham, where they're beginning to realize that Harvard guys have really got the stuff after...
Tall, portly, auburn-haired, Editor Morley has the ruddy complexion, the tweedy cut of a friendly English squire. A colossal after-dinner wit and classical punster, he plays bad tennis, smokes good pipes violently. On singing terms with a vast repertory of German drinking songs, he is reputedly the most difficult man in Washington...
...guts ("grace under pressure"), the true test of urbanity is staying power. By that test, "Elizabeth" is one of civilization's minor triumphs. For readers of her 20th novel, Mr. Skeffington, will find themselves firmly taken in by the same diverting, lightly troubling, perfectly delicate and occasionally outrageous wit that distinguished Elizabeth and Her German Garden 42 years ago and The Enchanted April 24 years later...
Oscar Fabrès has a Gallic wit, honed to an international cutting edge by cartooning in half the countries of the world. Last month short, balding Cartoonist Fabrès came to try his metal in the U. S. Last week his first impressions of life in Manhattan appeared in the New York World-Telegram. In his Adventures of Oscar, Oscar is himself, drawn much smaller than in his European comic strips. His explanation: "I am bewildered. I feel like a very little man in New York." In one strip (see cut) he is frisked...