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...Skate Cato Sirs: My memory exudes testimony supporting your Latin version of the remarks of Senator Cato (TIME, May 19, p. 26), to wit; an item published several years ago in the Paris edition of the Xew York Herald...
...Romantic Night (United Artists). This is Ferenc Molnar's The Swan, revised and softened, its crinkling wit ironed into conventional film dialog, its satire modified to focus attention on the romantic elements. Playwright Molnar was making deft fun of royalty in The Swan; in One Romantic Night Director Paul Stein is using royalty in its familiar stage function, as atmosphere. The result is only fair in spite of Lillian Gish's skill in making real the wistful, adolescent princess who loves a tutor and marries a prince. The trouble is that perhaps she never loved the tutor; such...
Many translations followed, each backed by careful reasoning. For more than 90 years the controversy waxed and waned. Not until this year was it conclusively settled, by West Virginia's famed scholar and wit Andrew Price, president of the State Historical Society...
Although recent tilts in the Cambridge field of humor have been a bit disappointing, it appears from a story found in a recent issue of the "Daily Princetonian" that true wit has not yet died. It seems that two editors of the enterprising "Cornell Sun", determined to achieve the hoax of the year, produced a fiction by the name of Hugo N. Frye the founder of the Republican Party in New York State, and decided to hold a Sesquicentennial celebration in his honor...
...desired a humorist in the White House are beginning to perk up. Only a few months ago the Chief Executive also headlined the Fourth Estate with the fervent desire that the London Naval Conference would bring about "a definite slash in armaments," not merely a limitation treaty. The Washington Wit scores not so much in this amusing reversal of form as in the revelation that both of these Spectacles for the People were after all, only "mimic Games"; one a peace-puzzle of comic sections and the other a panorama of toy ships for a little boy-god named Mars...