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...boss, wanted his man Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee kept in City Hall but Boss Curry flatly refused. Mayor McKee was shocking Tammany's sensibilities by trying to save the city money and cutting salaries. As hotel waiters brought in an early dinner a compromise was struck, to wit, both Walker and McKee would be dropped and a third man picked...
...publisher that Berlioz' story was fascinating. But, he pointed out, Berlioz was unlike most musicians. He had been able to talk about his trade, to handle words in as lively and vigorous a fashion as he handled musical notes. Berlioz' own Memoirs, according to Critic Newman, had wit, humor, raciness that made the language of his biographers seem like cold tea after champagne. Better to brush up the translation of the Memoirs than do another biography. Publisher Knopf agreed and now comes a noteworthy book with omissions and distortions of the original carefully corrected.- The facts of Berlioz...
...KISS ME," a figure of blindfolded Justice saying "Oh. my!" in an attitude of dancing, a large stein of beer labeled "Oh, boy!." and the legend. "Don't you know you're being ridiculed?" Mrs. Warren's library includes a set of "The World's Wit & Humor...
...cost $3.50 but which, he says, have cost $1,400 to keep repaired. He has an apartment in Manhattan, a home in Florida, another in Great Neck, L. I. Once he owned the mansion in Great Neck where now lives Cinemagnate Nicholas Schenck. He likes bicycles, collects books of wit. He thinks his joke collection is the world's largest. He plays several musical instruments. He is married, has a son, Frank Keenan. When he first saw his wife (Hilda Keenan) he exclaimed, "She is the cutest thing in girls I ever...
...pretty wit coupled with breath-taking brilliance in dialogue are Mr. Sherwood's prize possessions, displayed to perfection in "Reunion in Vienna." Let Molnar look to his laurels