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...MUSIC BOX REVUE?Irving Berlin's hardy annual continues to flourish. The long arms of Charlotte Greenwood and the clatter of Bobby Clark call for a consistent laugh...
...Scott really means all that he should refrain from reading the newspapers. Mr. Mencken's translation may be and undoubtedly is as uninspired as all the rest of the prose and verse which has been done into American, but none of it is worth a rhetorical flourish. Mr. Mencken is a symptom, not a disease...
...price of Steel falls to 95, the broker pretends to "sell the stock out," to avoid loss himself; actually he has already sold it, and thus simply pockets the customer's $500. Most people who speculate, and particularly amateurs, are always buyers. Hence the bucketshops can flourish only when the stock market is declining. During the long decline in the stock market from November, 1919, to August, 1921, bueketshops posing as brokerage houses in Wall Street made huge sums of money. But the business becomes immediately unprofitable on a rising stock market. That is why so many bucketshop failures...
...Saving Grace of humor is lacking in some very religious people, and thus absurd sects arise and flourish. Dr. Pollock, of Los Angeles, solemnly told radio fans last week that Zacharia 9:14 contains a prophecy of radio. (The passage reads: "And Jehovah shall be seen over them, and His arrow shall go forth as the lightning.") He even more solemnly declared that the millenium is not far off, because the automobile has fulfilled the prophecy of Nahum 2:4. ("The chariots rage in the streets; they rush to and fro in the broad ways; the appearance of them...
...also inspired. But the other drawings do not stray far from the conventional. Indeed, the art department appears to be the weakest part of the Lampoon. The magazine seems written with more freshness than is the case in those frequent, bare years when it lives but does not flourish; many of those who write for it have more than usual talent. The importance of the Lampoon in life at Harvard, quite apart from its tradition, cannot be valued too highly. Few of us would want all Harvard undergraduates to appear as solemn and grave as they do in the serious...