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...Riviera, where they continue to astound the bourgeois with their wisecracks and giddy japes, indulge in a few harmless bedroom scenes, fall in & out of love, flit back to Paris again and continue their galvanic act until their stage manager's timely curtain. Samples of their epigrammar: "Two gongs don't make a rite." An engagement "is exactly like giving a hungry man a menu and then turning him out of the restaurant." ". . . Genius is merely an infinite capacity for growing pains." Those who know Gertrude Stein's famed motto may snicker at "A Rolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Epigrammar | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

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