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...Dream Avenue (Colum-bia)-Fred Rich's piano and his orchestra raises this well above the average...
BALLOON-A Comedy in Four Acts- Padriac Colum-Macmillan ($2). Caspar rents his telescope in the Square (Act 1) in Megalapolis, a city much like Dublin. He deserts his trade to do a heroic thing: to go into the Hotel Daedalus, first to its Cafe (Act 2), then higher to its Hall of Palms (Act 3), then finally to its Roof Garden (Act 4). In all three places he asks this question: "Is a man born a hero or does he become a hero by doing heroic things?" In the Cafe, when a woman eyes him through a lorgnette...
...Even his interpreter smiled when he remarked: "That is why I've been elected so many times." When congratulated upon this and other sallies, the Mayor made a gesture of dismay, exclaiming: "My goodness, I forgot to mention Columbus. Just imagine an American speaking to Italians and forgetting Colum-bus." ¶After three days of lolling in bed or on the Lido beach, Mayor Walker emerged from his hotel to take the train for Rome. Said he: "I now feel like $1,000,000." ¶In Rome, the Mayor visited St. Peter's Basilica, saddened by the newly...
...there are left, besides the Messers. Canby, Boyd and Mencken, Critics Carl and Mark Van Doren, Burton Rascoe, Louis Untermeyer (poetry), Ludwig Lewisohn, Joseph Wood Krutch. There is unique, felicitous Dr. William Lyons Phelps. There are notable book conmentators and appreciators; John Farrar (The Bookman), Mary Colum, Isabel Patterson, Grant Overton, Harry Hansen (vice gusty Lawrence Stallings on the N. Y. World), George Sterling (San Francisco), William Allen White, Heywood Broun, Allan Nevins. And there are many creative writers whose discussion of one another's work stands for much that is good in U. S. criticism-William McFee, Christopher...
...Mary M. Colum: "The indiscriminate calling of such writers great or immortal must be stopped. . . . Let me state that No More Parades is an excellent book and worth every intelligent man's or woman's reading once...