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...WRITE SHORT STORIES (WITH SAMPLES)?Ring Lardner ? Scribner ($2.00). Ring Lardner is experiencing the difficult honor of being overpraised by those zealous critics whose word of endorsement is death to ambition. Adored by H. L. Mencken, Gilbert Seldes and F. P. Awood Broun, he will need all his humor and poise to keep from showing off. Thus far he has succeeded. The delightful thing about this book of short stories is not the amusing burlesque framework, ridiculing those textbooks that offer to teach illiterate soda-clerks to earn $25,000 in the writing business...
...Heywood Broun: "Garden of Weeds is just terrible. Leon Gordon [author] has proceeded on the theory the moron the merrier. Quite the silliest play of the season...
...Heywood Broun: "We cannot imagine anybody's failing to have a delightful time watching...
...Heywood Broun: ". . . epigrams which fall like anvils. I can remember no play which has seemed so utterly cheap, preposterous and vulgar...
...Heywood Broun, famed theatre critic: "In a play criticism I concocted a mixed metaphor: 'It is not unreasonable that it [the Provincetown Playhouse] should occasionally bring forth base metal...