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...life at the theatre, it has never been our experience to find ourselves "let down" by any Theatre Guild performance. "Pride and Prejudice" is no exception. It is bound to please, if you take care to discount in advance the wit of an earlier day and charge it up to atmosphere...
...moved to offer my congratulations by TIME'S achieving the impossible in outdoing itself. I refer to the Edward-Simpson resume in the Dec. 21 issue. For writing, for journalism, for wit, for rationality, it is, I think, unsurpassed in its field. I had become so fed up with the hysterical, pathetic, impassioned and - warped newspaper accounts of this now famous imbroglio that I've not bought a paper for several weeks...
...first time by his new bodyguard, Thomas Quakers, successor to Gus Gennerich-attended the semi-annual Gridiron Club dinner and show. There he and Alf Landon sat at the head table, both made satirical off-the-record speeches and newshawks to their surprise agreed that Alf Landon, in wit and composure, came off by no means second best as after-dinner speaker...
...perhaps too much to expect accuracy and comprehension of subject in keyhole reporting, but at least fairness to the dead might be hoped for. The omission not only left TIME'S item without point but withheld credit from a writer whose wit and insight had compressed volumes into a single incisive sentence, which illuminated the murky economics of the time like a flash of lightning...
...monarch of the Restoration, wanted everybody to have a good time and when Dryden fumed at "the steaming ordures of the stage." The Country Wife is generally conceded to be the best of William Wycherley's four major comedies. It holds up dullness as the worst of sins, wit as the greatest virtue. If it preaches anything at all, it is that sex is, at bottom, a laughing matter. The play was revived on Broadway by Augustin Daly, in a heavily bowdlerized version, 52 years...