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...into a love avowal, and ends as his fiancee after an interlude with Philip Reed, who symbolizes Princetonian youth. Accent on youth suffers less than most light pieces in translation to the screen, for, although its people sit around and talk a lot, they at least talk with wit. One funny situation occurs when Reed, not recognizing Marshall as his rival in love, begs him, as a playmaker, to devise a dramatic way for him to express his passion for Miss Sidney, and then proceeds to win her by completely disregarding the scene which Marshall has concocted for him. Another...
...contained implicit and explicit criticisms of modern society, the tales in Feliciana are casual and fragmentary, contain only marginal sociological comment. Some times Stark Young seems little more than a leisurely collector of old Southern impressions, exhibiting dissociated bits of conversations, rare historical items, with the polite, after-dinner wit of one displaying trophies of a hunt. Always contrasting feverish urban affectations with the contented days and rich histories of small Southern and Western towns, he finds humor, common sense and human decency characteristic of the provincials. His portraits of them would carry more conviction if occasionally human sweat...
...Wit Shapiro realize that the Navy's ''Generals" are Admirals-in-the-making. If a table were built for their miniature war games, they would still get waistline exercise (which they relish) because the table would have to be as big as the linoleum floor on which they now play. The games are played to scale. Each 1-ft. square of linoleum represents one square mile of ocean, or at most ten square miles, according to the problem...
Died. Oliver Herford, 71, writer, artist, Manhattan wit of the 1890's; after long illness; in Manhattan. Most famed Herford witticism concerned his wife, of whom he said: "Peggy has a whim of iron." Like Whistler, he wore a monocle, liked to squelch bores with such jibes as: "I don't recall your name, but your manners are familiar...
...carefully concealed critics and poets gravely debated the merits of this bogus verse and school, argued solemnly whether Poet Emanuel Morgan was a genius or a fraud. In Guest Book Author Bynner again reveals his keen eye for literary and other pretensions, his delight in exposing them with wit and a minimum of malice. Less frankly humorous than his verse play, Cake, less grave than his contemplative Eden Tree, Guest Book nevertheless contains several sprightly amusing poems, several that strike a deep note of sadness and concern. Hospitable and urbane, Author Bynner has among his 70 guests a Communist...