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Senator William John Bulow of South Dakota, tobacco-chewing wit whom Will Rogers calls "funnier than I am." The Senate has yet to be shown...
Oakie, who gets fatter, if not funnier, by the day, is cast as a well-meaning, self-important hick from Azusa, who discovers life and love in Greater Los Angeles. Side-kick Tracy is as tough and tight-lipped as ever, and seems just the kind of trouble-shooter you'd like to have fix your worst enemy's telephone. The pair offset each other nicely, and one is very glad that the girls they fall in love with are room-mates, because double weddings, even by a J.P., are such...
...usually careful to avoid inventions of his own, stuck close to the jargon of baseball. Columnist Damon Runyon mixes authentic underworld talk with invented freaks. Gelett Burgess' The Goops contributed a less valuable word than Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. George Ade's Fables in Slang were funnier than real slang. Gene Buck, who, Mr. Funk said last week, had once told him he "was responsible for 100 words that are now current in the language" was guilty of a songwriter's exaggeration...
...never falters in making vivid ordinary conversations motivated only by busy curiosity and vapid malice. No one else has her ability to make casual human types seem abysmally fatuous. Just as good in their way are the three or four lighter pieces included in the book. Nothing could be funnier than "The little Hours," an account of Mrs. Parker's midnight rendezvous with La Rochefoucauld. The late Elinor Wylie, who sometimes wrote in a similar vein, was apt to betray her consciousness of the aristocratic stylist at work, but Mrs. Parker betrays nothing except her sense of derision...
...Yours for bigger and funnier nudist pictures...