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...Revolt" carries on Pi Eta Theatricals' tradition of musical comedy. The story, dealing inevitably with a mythical land, a dictatorship, and the bumpy road to love, is unimportant, although its complications require so much exposition that little room is left for irrelevant wit. Fortunately the play's barbed remarks are confined to local institutions...
...favorite spot for poets and painters and when Edward VII, as Prince of Wales, paid regular visits incognito (with the whole town informed) to the villa of the Duchess Caracciolo. Later on Blanche knew the great houses of London, and pays an eloquent tribute to Mary Hunter, whose wit and beauty inspired Henry James, George Moore, Rodin, Sargent and himself. One of his stories about her gives the slightly archaic flavor of his worldly revelations, which sound like something out of Proust. When Rodin was working on a bust of Mary Hunter he praised her beauty, kissed her hand...
...chief reasons for reading: a good laugh or a good cry. As Town Crier, on the radio, he charmed with his anecdotes, pumped books he liked, made best-sellers of such works as James Hilton's Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Alexander Woollcott's While Rome Burns. As town wit, he sat far above the salt when the Hotel Algonquin's famed Round Table was the spawning ground of Manhattan sophisticates, has long terrorized his enemies with his thrusts, has served without pay as publicity agent for such other town wits as Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman...
Shadow and Substance. Sir Cedric Hardwicke in a first-rate Irish religious play, full of wit and feeling (TIME...
...career; his Liberalism and his love of property, his pity for the Irish peasantry and his opposition to Home Rule, his artistic bent and his fantastic taste in furnishing his country house, Clandeboye, which included everything from cannons to totem poles. These contradictions he treats with disarming irony, wit, charm of style. In his typically English dialect of delicate understatement Nephew Nicolson limns Lord Dufferin's "generosity of soul," his touching love for his mother (for whom he built an elaborate shrine which he called Helen's Tower), his extraordinary charm, his genius for winning colonies without battles...