Word: comic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...space left between the covers for poetry, and it is the poetry after all that is on the dissecting table to be reviewed. But even this is simplified. There are two main tenets of faith supported by the editor in forming this collection of poetic emanations of the "Comic Idea". First; the poems are to be grouped each according to the musical instrument that best represents its particular note, and there they are classified, ready to satisfy the reader's merest subconscious mood, all the way from Lyre and lute d'amour to saxophone and piccolo. Truly a Herfordian idea...
...bear it well; and in fairness it must be said that the role of gullible husband is a thankless one. As Tarlow, the perfect lover, Mr. Darney is indisputably good, doing double service as the final agent of the forces of justice and as a never failing source of comic relief. Miss Roach his a hard task as the heartless thief of love and husbands and does it well; alternating with grace between the gracious lady and the unfeeling gold digger. The rest of the caste, Mark Kent as Judge Perry and Anna Layng as Mrs. Davis especially, maintain...
Lawrence Gilman (Tribune) : "Mr. Vladimir de Pachmann brought his inimitable one-man vaudeville show into town last night. .' . . Mr. de Pachmann favored his audience with an almost continuous monologue, addressing little speeches to them between his numbers and commenting on his performance as he went along. He registered comic despair when he found difficulty in adjusting the piano stool to his satisfaction, gestured elaborately between phrases, grimaced, scowled melodramatically and indulged in various other monkey shines...
...conceivable that the October pie will go to Judge, moribund comic weekly...
...deals with the popular but hardly novel urge in man and woman to do things they shouldn't. This, if one thinks back, was the primary drama, set in an apple orchard, played by Adam and Eve. Sydney Roserifeld (author of this current version) deals with the comic values of : the case, demonstrates :" that: they did those things much better years...