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Alice Duer Miller calls her new chronicle Instruments of Darkness (Dodd, Mead). Harold Bindloss can fill you again with western ozone on Pine Creek Ranch (Stokes). If you like H. C. ("Slanguage") Witwer, you will like Roughly Speaking (Putnam...
...there have been books written as late as 1925 which have had some humor tucked beneath their sheets. "The Polyglots" had a whole lot--not the Lardner-Witwer-Sherwood-Benchley type, nor even the gentle-professorial-high-and-mighty type--but some real humor. And now someone asks, "What is real humor?" I suppose the best answer, aside from Dr. Cadman's who is now making Brooklyn the Delphi of America--the best answer is silence, since this is not a question and answer column nor is it inspired by the deft delightfulness of syndication. But I have lost...
...continued by Alexander Woollcott, carried on by Louis Bromfield, sustained by Elsie Janis. On Jan. 17, Ed Streeter was scheduled to prolong it, Meade Minnigerode to extend it, Dorothy Parker to persist to the end of her chapter. Eventually the following will all have had a turn: Harry C. Witwer, Sophie Kerr, Robert G. Anderson, Kermit Roosevelt, Bernice Brown, Wallace Irwin, Frank Craven, George B. McCutcheon, Rube Goldberg, George A. Chamberlain, John V. A. Weaver, Gerald Mygatt, George P. Putnam...
...International and the Cosmopolitan do so primarily for the fiction and illustrations and these are almost identical in the two magazines. Asked to distinguish a difference, few readers point out that the Cosmopolitan's are of slightly greater fame and salary than the International's?Philip Gibbs, H. C. Witwer, A. S. M. Hutchinson, Meredith Nicholson, for example, as compared with Tom Gill, Walter De Leon, Edwin Balmer and George Weston. Even this faint distinction is confused by the fact that many of these authors write for both magazines, and that what they write is invariably the same?"high-life...