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...together with her twin sister's less devious route to the same goals. The plot is rather more involved than is usual on the contemporary stage. It abounds in "character" parts which require considerable adroitness from the actors, and more experience, perhaps, than undergraduates can supply. There was little wit but much humor in the dialogue, none of it conspicuously original in tone. Reminiscences of A. A. Milne were frequently both in the structure and the lines...
...critics spurned the doctor-playwright-legislator's invitation, heaped upon him their most venomous wit and satire. Thereupon Congressman Sirovich began to talk about subpenaing them...
...Spanish wit and Spanish gallantry helped the Geneva Disarmament Conference, which needed help last week...
...reputation spread, she founded her own catering firm, directed other restaurants. But as hostess in her own home Mrs. Moody was most famed. Even after her husband died in 1910, such writers as John Masefield, Rabindranath Tagore, Padraic Colum, James Stephens continued to come for her food and wit...
...APES OF GOD-Wyndham Lewis- McBride ($3). Though rumored to be aimed at the Sitwells (Edith. Osbert, Sacheverellj, Wyndham Lewis' Gargantuan satire carries poisoned arrows enough to riddle all the bohemians and neo-bohemians on earth. With a scalpel of wit in one hand, a cleaver of words in the other, the author lays open their pimplish coteries, shows them apish creatures loosely sexed. Wherever Art is, there are these Apes gathered. The fact that Satirist Lewis' account of their doings slipped the censor can only be explained by his book's disarming brilliance and enormous length...