Word: cowards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SMALL WORLD-Walter Bodin & Burnet Hershey-Coward-McCann ($3). In the 18th Century it was quite the thing to visit Bedlam, London's lunatic asylum, to have a hearty laugh at its mad inmates. Twentieth-Centuryites are more squeamish, but they still pay good money to circus sideshows to see grown men and women whose under-functioning pituitary glands have made midgets. For those who cannot or will not attend such freak shows, Authors Bodin & Hershey have written a book that answers all conceivable questions about these monstrous mites. Midgets are correctly proportioned miniature copies of adults, usually between...
...Anthony Adverse'." There is a feeling of being on hand at an excavation of the present. In a review of Smith, Mr. Cabell is swiftly and neatly disposed of; "at this date no one whom Cabell could conceivably surprise reads Cabell." Mr. Dollard evokes the generation of Noel Coward in the same detached way, and truthfully asserts that as a playwright, he is a Pseudo-Modern, "less modern even than Maxwell Anderson, Clemence Dane or any of those who write frankly historical plays...
...hard to tell what Shaw meant by Village Wooing, as he did not vouchsafe an explanatory preface. You are free to surmise many things: that he sought to show up the smart-talk writers from Maugham through Lonsdale, Coward and Milne; to beat them at their game...
Another story which should prove of interest to all readers is "Noel Coward," a description of the famous playwright by W. A. Dollard, one of the former's English friends. "Satire on the College Chapel" furnishes the poetry for this issue, written by James L. LeB. Boyle '36. The fourth and final article is a criticism written by George R. Carnahan '37 named "Realism and Romanticism...
LONG REMEMBER-MacKinlay Kantor-Coward-McCann...