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...puckish fancy in his later years that the continual reference to the fact that he wrote "The Long, Long Trail'' irritated him. Many of us often thought that King would have liked to have the memory of that ditty buried. It obscured the value of the pungent wit and humor which poured in a continual and effortless stream from his typewriter into the pages of the Spokane Spokesman-Review and into his books. These books-collections of fine humorous verse, What the Queen Said, The Raspberry Tree and others-must and will pass into future collections of Americana...
...that his celebrity- like that of Helen Morgan and Jimmy Durante who preceded him from the orchidaceous gloom of cabarets into the glare of Broadway and the cinema- would presently outgrow Manhattan. It was rumored that he was soon to leave the Mayfair Yacht Club for Hollywood where his wit, properly censored, would provide an element thus far missing (see p. 30) in musical productions. Last week also, to the amazement of his admirers who had never for a moment supposed that any of his recitations might be printable, Dwight Fiske published his first book, Without Music...
When legislative wit had run its course both houses suspended their rules, conferred official status upon the chickadee. Then it was the State's turn to have fun. The chickadee is a member of the titmouse family. Editors remembered "Little Tommy Tittlemouse" who "lived in a little house," began to refer to the "Tomtit Legislature." Clubs and societies stirred uneasily at the prospect of North Carolina's becoming known as the "tomtit State...
...thought of in terms of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, said he to himself and properties and photography will at last get their share of criticism. But this plan never worked out. With the first scene the reviewer is in the thick of a play which combines the brittle wit of Oscar Wilde with the mellow sentiment of "Der Kongress Tanzt." Old Vienna, with its archdukes and New Vienna with its psychoanalysts and yeast specialists. And in ten minutes the Lunt family is forgotten...
...much for Vienna, now for Robert Sherwood and his Broadway wit. This play offers more than sentiment and satire. It offers the quintessence of bubbling dialogue, refined repartee and waltzing love-scenes. It represents all the nuances and emotional fires which lie behind the less bourgeois legends, from Prince Charlie to Prince Mike Romanoff...