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...Press generally accorded Oracle Coolidge and his article great acclaim. There was much comment on "sound judgment," "good sense," "sage counsel." Editorial writers heartily welcomed Mr. Coolidge into their profession, but urged him to relax, to reveal some of his proverbial wit...
...Social Lion (Paramount) No particular wit of dialog or situation makes this picture sparkle, yet it sparkles; its story is unremarkable, yet continuously entertaining. It concerns a prizefighter who loses an important fight because he takes seriously an opponent who tells him his shoe is untied. Later, having returned to his original profession of spark-plug cleaning, he plays polo for his home-town team and makes love to a society girl. Jack Oakie performs these activities with the necessary absurdity, and with wonderfully skillful, probably unconscious character reading. Like all true comedians, his fooling is human and remotely pathetic...
...being a Coast Artilleryman of the Regular Army, much interested in and having served with the Antiaircraft Artillery, rise to ask two questions, to wit...
...amateurs. Her thoughts have remained inaccessible, incommunicable to the herd (as are our own). . . . He who has never pursued the key to the secret of life, be it only in dreams, will never draw near the real Egypt." In one of her last entries, Traveler Bibesco's European wit reasserts itself: "Since I have left Egypt, I keep rubbing my eyes and wonder why I see badly, or if I am going blind. It is her light that I miss. I must have a first cataract operation...
...wit: that for the space of one year he had been Bethlehem's president. Now, of course, he is internationally famed as Bethlehem's genial, talkative chairman. What Mr. Grace, who is now Bethlehem's president, would not tell, was the size of his, Mr. Grace's, salary. In Youngstown, only the day before, a new petition had charged that this salary exceeded $1,000,000 annually, "for which," the petition added, "he renders no adequate service or consideration." Never before had such things been said of the man whom Colyumist Arthur Brisbane immediately characterized...