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...Comden and Adolph Green) is a sort of part-time musical made from a book (Say, Darling) that described how a big-time musical was made from a book (7? Cents). This carrying The Pajama Game into extra innings works out fairly agreeably on the whole. Compared to its bookform pokes at show business, Say, Darling is now using a softball. But as a popular-entertainment monkeyshine on the making of musicals, and as the decidedly unspiritual autobiography of a fledgling librettist, the show bumps and bounces along cheerfully enough...
...well as the reading matter stamped the paper as the Lampoon, and then when the red cover was adopted the paper had still another distinguishing mark. The pictures of Attwood, called "Ye Manners and Customs of ye Harvard Students," which appeared first in the Lampoon, were afterwards published in bookform, and some illustrated plays by Robert Grant also, which since have appeared as books, were first enjoyed by the readers of this paper. The work of these men, together with that of Mr. Wendell, our present instructor in English, and others, gave the Lampoon the distinctive character...
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