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...Between the Devil" is a light-hearted musical comedy, urbane and sophisticated, but innocent of satire and wit. Humorous explosives are prepared with care, but as a rule they fizzle instead of firing. Howard Dietz's book is rather flat, both in incident and dialogue, but in ample compensation it does serve as a vehicle for some very pleasant songs, an actor and two actresses of considerable charm, handsome sets, and some amusing byplay...
...courts, and Mannequin Royle was fined costs of court. Last week Viscount Kingsborough struck back in turn. In Miss Royle's apartment it had been His Lordship's pleasure to play with model trains and tin soldiers. These and other personal articles he wanted returned, to wit...
...presence of fellow artists. Only in the half-world of Parisian cafes and dance halls did the Vicomte feel at home. Of these, from 1885 to his death in 1901, Toulouse-Lautrec became the greatest delineator. Strumpets, vaudevillians and circus performers admired him for his talents, acid wit and title, but they did not call him M. le Vicomte, or even Henri. Because the paunchy Prince of Wales (Edward VII) was the darling of Paris, because French gentlemen wore monocles and London clothes, and British music hall stars filled the stages, they called him 'Ennry...
...catlike and solitary, as he was artistic and amorous. . . . Feline . . . is the adjective most used to suggest his walk, his manner, his particular kind of acrid wit, his playfulness, his sulks, and, most of all, the voluptuousness that colored his whole relation to life...
English Critic Frank Swinnerton has said that Huxley "may yet lead his generation, and the younger generation, into a state of grace out of which great things will come." However much they admire Huxley's encyclopedic knowledge and acid wit, followers are likely to balk at the regimen he lays down for those who want to achieve a "scientific-mystical conception of the world." It includes meditation, love, compassion, intelligence, moderation, physical fitness, chastity, which the ex-idol of sophisticates defines as "one of the major virtues." The energy created by sexual restraint "is the motive power which makes...