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Musing wearily on the futility of funny men, the Scholar drags himself to Broadway to inspect the latest models in professional hilarity. He takes his post in the Winter Garden where the current Passing Show unrolls its gorgeous length. The screaming point is reached when one Roy Cummin gs, in the manner of a concert tenor, walks slowly from the wings, heaving with the impending agony of solemn singing. He opens his mouth for the first rush of song?and falls on his face. The audience dissolves in tears of frantic delight...
...could sing outdoors." Here is The Chinese Nightingale (Mr. Lindsay's own favorite among his longer poems), and The Litany of the Heroes which he describes as a " rhymed Outline of History, still in process of development," and John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston, with its gorgeous analysis of "simple sheltered 1889" and its sledgehammer refrain concerning...
...Ford's unmarried daughter?wonder what Justice Ford's unmarried daughter thinks about it all??Gertrude Atherton?Black Oxen?hoping against hope that the Steinach process of rejuvenation will not be applied to various literary prominencies?books about sex?a few books not about sex?Sabatini and the gorgeous return of cloak-and-sword...
...Passing Show of 1923 is as huge, as sumptuous, as varied as ever, but the arrangement of this hugeness, sumptuousness, et cetera, is carried out with more intelligence and better artistic taste than in any previous one of the series. There are gorgeous spectacles-royal wedding in Westminster Abbey-a striking scene wherein great chandeliers are decorated with ladies of the chorus pinch-hitting for the usual crystal ornaments-a section of the French Revolution-a flash of dear old Fujiyama -and others-dozens of others-too many to count or describe. In fact about everything spectacular that...
ZANDER THE GREAT?Showing that bootleggers will be bootleggers in Arizona as in Harlem?and a little tot can reform any evil character in the American drama, especially when assisted by some gorgeous acting on the part of Alice Brady. Hokum...