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...Oxford. . . . Dons and undergraduates stood around, rather pale, discussing nothing but it. Whence came it, this meteorite? From Paris. ... Its aim? To do a series of 24 portraits in lithograph. . . . He was 21 years old. He wore spectacles that flashed more than any pair ever seen. He was a wit. He was brimful of ideas. He knew Whistler. He knew Edmond de Goncourt. He knew everyone in Paris. He knew them all by heart. He was Paris in Oxford...
Last year, on the occasion of Professor Copeland's seventieth birthday, a dinner of "wit and reason" was given to him by the Club and was attended by many prominent people...
...Testament of a Critic" Mr. Nathan is the same devastating gentleman that has paraded himself in dramatic columns for the past quarter century. He has been accused of being a columnist with false pretensions to wit and of being a dramatic critic with an utter lack of dramatic appreciation. Such attacks, however, have very little effect on Mr. Nathan whose self complacence seems to grow the harder it is buffetted. On the surface his criticism is clever and thin, but after a more careful consideration of his longer works the cleverness becomes keenness and what seemed superficiality is really cogency...
...Cynthia. For Lady Cynthia Mosley, fighting the New Party's battles last week meant standing up at mass meetings, giving as good as she got from hecklers of all the big parties, keeping her temper, sharpening her wit, pleading...
...play. Aside from her diction and a few unrestrained dramatics that were difficult to avoid, however, she turned in a creditable performance. Mr. Lunt assisted her with no great brilliancy, but as well as his lines would permit. And if the Court Fool was the epitome of Elizabethan wit and humor, "merrie England" is a euphemism...