Word: ginsbergh
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...Perelmans wrote another play, All Good Americans, which failed to come off. Later they collaborated on the script for Ambush, one of 1939's best pictures, and Mr. Perelman gagged the best of the Marx Brothers' films. His best book (of four) was his first, Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge (1929). On its jacket was the blurb: "This book does not stop at Yonkers." The Night Before Christmas does...
...Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge (1929) was written, much of it, while S. J. Perelman, who had graduated from Brown University in 1925, was working for the now Judge. It had an abundant, frenzied incandescence that promised either 1) to burn out, or 2) to become as brilliant and sure and destructive as anything in U. S. satire. Perelman did not burn out, but he has cooled off. Having become a money-earning professional, he collaborated on a novel (Parlor, Bedlam & Bath) and a play (All Good Americans); gagged the best of the Marx Brothers' films; with his wife...
Nearly all of them are frank, formularized potboilers, a virtuoso's improvisations on minor themes. Tempered to the genteel tastes of The New Yorker, these pieces seldom hold a Roman candle to real Ginsbergh fireworks. Yet they are also as hard, sharp, bright and cold as a display of surgical instruments; and sometimes they do genuinely surgical work...
...maintained by S. N. Dunton '18, J. H. Spitz '17 and L. Dennis '19; the negative by J. Davis '19, L. Brentano '18 and C. C. Fraser '18. At 7 this evening the affirmative will be upheld by D. Davis '18, W. A. Hosmer '18 and A. R. Ginsbergh '17: the negative by J. T. Noonan '19, A. G. Aldis '17 and W. L. Prosser '18 in the order given...
...affirmative speakers will be S. N. Dunton '18, J. H. Spitz '17, and L. Dennis '19; negative speakers, J. Davis '19, L. Brentano '18, and C. C. Fraser '18. At 7 o'clock the affirmative speakers will be D. Davis '18, W. A. Hosmer '18 and A. R. Ginsbergh '17; negative speakers, J. T. Noonan '19, A. G. Aldis '17 and W. L. Prosser '18 in the order given...
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