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...been punished by law, then killed by a motorcar. They pointed with pride to the deaf-mutes who make high mark in the world today-Sculptor Elmer A. Hannon, Poet Howard Leslie Terry, blind Pianist Helen May Martin, Dancers Charlotte & Charles Lamberton, Dentist A. H. Clancy of Cincinnati, Broker Samuel Frankenheim of Manhattan, Research Librarian Elizabeth McLeod of the New York Public Library, President Arthur Lawrence Roberts of the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf (a $2,000,000 insurance company exclusively for deaf-mutes), N. A. D.'s President Kenner who owns a Manhattan printing establishment and insurance...
...habit of laying the contents of old tin boxes before Mr. Smythe's blazing blue eyes, red face and Edwardian whiskers. Mr. Smythe loved to talk, hated to give any information except for a fee. For the last 20 years of his life he was the only broker in New York who refused to have a telephone...
Conversation at Midnight brings together a priest, an artist, a writer of advertising copy, a Communist poet, a rich broker, a Liberal dilettant and a slick magazine writer for after-dinner dialog in verse. Poet Millay, who once acted at Vassar and Provincetown, asks her readers to think of her Conversation in terms of the theatre, but she appends an index of first lines so that segments may be read as single poems. Readers will immediately observe 1) that the most feminine living poet has attempted not one but several distinct masculine idioms, with considerable charm but only here...
Typical of Poet Millay's ingenuity is the history-in-miniature effect gained by having Father Anselmo go home early, leaving the conversation to circle through such topics as Romantic Love, the Supreme Court, the Past, toward ever more pointed conflict between Broker Merton and Communist Carl. Finally the latter says...
...boiled down to the skeleton for a succession of vaudeville turns most of which are as familiar as the players who take part in them. Best sketch, taken from Life Begins at 8:40 (1934): Milton Berle as a stock speculator hysterically caught in the toils of a greedy broker...