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Noel Coward is conceded to be the cleverest of living English dramatists. Some go further, advancing the premise that in the last hundred years only Disraeli, Wilde and Shaw have started from nothing and conquered England as Mr. Coward has conquered...
...elicited scorn: "Cleverest pseudo-scientific hoax yet perpetrated" (American Engineering Council). "Intellectual mah jong . . . Greenwich Village economics" (University of Chicago...
Jesse Livermore, a friend from pre-War days in Chicago, Broker Block has called "the gamest and cleverest trader alive." Durant he said was "as square a man as you'll ever know, and when his friends are losing he is losing more than any of them." Broker Block ought to know; he helped Durant throw away a $90,000,000 fortune trying to support General Motors' stock in the 1920 crash. But Bull Durant fell out with Broker Block two years ago when his account was sold out. Early this year he sued for $378,000, claiming he loaned...
...Everything's Rosy" includes some of O. Soglow's cleverest ideas. The picture of Lady Godiva, for instance, is in his best salacious vein. And all New Yorker readers should howl with laughter over the new antics of that inimitable king of O. Soglow. But once in a while, one has the feeling that the humor is strained. O. Soglow has hoped that his name would excuse bad ideas, or perhaps that his drawing would put them over, which it almost does...
...nominee for the presidency of the land, and again as the mountebank who is hired as a double to make up for the lack of sex appeal. The audience won't tire of its favorite and the producers haven't used him over-abundantly. The double exposure escapes the cleverest eye and the exposition of two characters will hold the attention of the most indifferent. And they've put in Jimmy Durante to gush forth exuberantly and to smother his tormenters with aspirates. Claudette Colbert still possesses her cultured charm and poise but falls to convince one that she recognizes...