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Plymouth--"Art and Mrs. Bottle". Jane Cowl in a gay comedy of today...
...parking in a bus stop?" Policeman Ripley began pleasantly. Then, before the driver had time to reach the two revolvers in his pockets, or the tear gas gun in his vest, or the two other revolvers concealed in the car doors, or the one under the cowl, or the machine gun in the rumble seat, alert Policeman Ripley covered him with the weapon he had hidden beneath his rain-cape. The officer marched his prisoner, hands in the air, through the rain to the police station. Word soon flashed throughout the East that James Nannery, ruthless young desperado wanted dead...
...Fowler's "Modern English Usage." He begins with "who" and "whom" and concludes in crescendo on adverbial advice. In all departments the author shows himself a thorough master of his subject and proves conclusively that for sheer lucidity and clarity nothing can equal manual gesticulation a la Jane Cowl. All of which fits in paradoxically with the fact that Mr. Thurber's humor is the product of delicate, well constructed prose seldom equaled by modern American comic writers...
...modern, cowl-less Jesuits (they wear simple black cassocks), always high scholars of the Church since their Society's founding in 1564 by St. Ignatius of Loyola. The staff at "The Mother House of the Society of Jesus" near Vatican City had labored a fortnight over the translations before they were authorized to be made public...
...Bottle. Jane Cowl has introduced this comedy by Benn W. Levy (adapter of Topaze) to alternate with her performances of Twelfth Night. The play is well above the average as to script, is ably acted. Miss Cowl assumes the role of a lady who, having run away with an artist who later abandoned her, returns to her husband, son and daughter after 20 years. She finds her son in love with a model, her daughter in love with her seductive artist, her husband in a quandary. The final unraveling of all this is perhaps overlong, but splendid are the queenly...