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...writers of any sex or nationality can be more charmingly amusing than "Elizabeth" (Elizabeth Mary, Countess Russell), when she sets her mind to it. The Jasmine Farm shows her at her mindful best. Written with a wit so inoffensive that it is hardly perceptible, this novel will keep many a plain reader from more mischievous pursuits for a pleasant, if softening, hour...
...blackmailing social-climber, she knew the fat was in the fire. She collapsed, fled to her inaccessible cottage in France to hide her shame. Who pursued her there and what happened to make everything come out as well as could be expected is a denouement that "Elizabeth's" kindly wit just rescues from farce...
Leaving aside the question of the merits of the present incumbent, it can truthfully be said that the Ivy Orations of the last few years have done little to arouse public enthusiasm over the wit of Harvard students. The speeches occasionally have been rather amusing to read. They have contained lines which are humorous as they stand in black and white. But in the broad expanses of the Stadium they have found no resounding echoes of applause...
Many of the characters you will remember as he did when you close the book. Jack Duffy, the shop wit, Max'I, the hard-boiled boss. Miss Weber, the stenographer all looked upon with appreciative eyes, and Kubee, the molde who didn't like landlords, all make an impression that is not easily forgotten. The author minces no words and his vocabulary is natural to the men he portrays. His style is lucid and flowing. He will hold your interest from the first page...
...Linda Watkins (June Moon) finds herself cast as an ingenue in a musical piece for the first time. Lillian Emerson, another legitimate actress, is teamed with Harry Richman, the only man on Broadway who can lisp without exciting suspicion. Bob Hope, the irrepressible juvenile of Roberta, displays a pretty wit. And as a freak draw the management has hired Impostor Harry Gerguson ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff"), who made a vaudeville appearance last year after a session in jail climaxed a series of transatlantic voyages in stowage. He impersonates himself as a high society gatecrasher...