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...Again (Richard Dix, Chester Conklin). Any actor with Chester Conklin at his elbow runs grave risk. Mr. Conklin is so superbly comic that the witnesses are likely to be annoyed at interruptions by the usual movie romance. Such is the case with this display. Richard Dix, inevitably capable and decorative, tries to project a threadbare mythical kingdom story in opposition to Mr. Conklin's staggering comedy. Probably for the first time in history the custard pie is the power behind the throne...
THOBBING?Henshaw Ward?Bobbs-Merrill ($3.50). "When a person THinks without curiosity, has an Opinion because he likes it, Believes what is handy?then he THOBS." Dr. Edwin Grant Conklin, able Princeton biologist, has called it, more simply, "wishful thinking." The inventor of the new word, excusably pleased with himself, hammers for nearly 400 pages to drive it into the language. Before he has done he admits that he is probably thobbing himself...
Yale: 115-pound--M. J. Krevitt, 125-pound--G. H. Conklin, 135-pound--C. J. Clopper, 145-pound--E. T. Cornish, 158-pound--B. C. Miller, 175-pound--F. F. Russell, captain, Unlimited--D. F. Allen...
...selection of poems is well made although far from exclusively of the best verse. It covers a wide range ?poems from F.P.A., A.E., Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Matthew Arnold, Hilaire Belloc, William Rose Benet, William Blake, Emily Bronte, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Byron, Lewis Carroll, S. T. Coleridge. Hilda Conklin, William Cowper, King David (three Psalms) etc., etc. Those who are accustomed to finding most anthologies a great bore, may well be pleased by this...
...Titania," from "Mignon," Thomas Miss Marjorie Moody 5. a. Love Scene from "Feuersnoth" R. Strauss b. March, "The Liberty Bell" Sousa The Band 6. "Jazz America" (new) Sousa 7. a. Saxophone Octette, "I Want to be Happy," from "No, No, Nanette" Youmans Messrs. Stephens, Heney, Goodrich, Weigel, Weir, Johnson, Conklin and Munroe. b. "The National Game" (New), Sousa The Band 8. Xylophone Solo, "Morning Noon and Night" Suppe Mr. George Carey 9. Old Fiddler's Tune, "Sheep and Goats Walking to Pasture" Guion The Band