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...ZAT So?-The slang comedy at its best, as a prizefighter and his manager stumble into wealth and high society...
Solid Ivory. The sporting appetite of the public is constantly being met with theatrical fodder. Is Zat So? deals with prizefighting, and The Poor Nut with a track meet. The fight and the quarter-mile run are exhibited on the stage. Both are successes. Solid Ivory turns to baseball, and borrows in the process something of the slang sorcery of Ring Lardner...
...ZAT SO??It seems there were a couple of prizefighters that met up with a bunch of swells...
...present Mr. Eaton is engaged in a country-wide crusade against stage slang such as appears in "The Butter and Egg Man," "Is Zat So?," and other New York successes. His contention is that plays using such slang, though sometimes really worth while, will never live, simply because in a few years, these slang phrases will have changed, and will be entirely unintelligible to the theatre audiences ten years hence...
...ZAT SO?-The parable of a couple of prizefighters who found themselves in society...