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Miss Frederick is cast as an amiable widow called Jane Seymour. Her long-lost suitor, the itinerant violinist, is labeled Peter Stuyvesant. Inept are Widow Seymour's efforts to disentangle her son from the siren snares of a "voluptuous" and "continental" woman with whom Violinist Stuyvesant was once embroiled. There is a teetotaling housekeeper who gets drunk, and a happy ending. Sample comedy, when the addle-headed housekeeper hears the name of a famed sexologist mentioned: "If that Mr. Havelock Ellis comes around here, I'll slam the door in his face...
From this initial point of departure Mr. Brooks advances with assurance and easy facility. The evidence which he adduces serves to bolster his case well. The spiritual desert upon which we find ourselves in the beginning was made by Jonathan Edwards. "He was able to spin his inept sublimities by subtracting from his mind every trace of experience, every touch of human nature as it really was among his innocent country folk." He was a rapt and isolated scholar whose wrathful theology found no listener in the market place. On the other hand our great Dr. Franklin with his immense...
Song enthusiasts will argue interminably over the respective merits of George Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Irving Berlin, the important triumvirate in the U. S. songwriting industry. But comparisons are inept. George Gershwin, more technically ambitious than the others, has more musically ambitious enthusiasts. Jerome Kern has never claimed to be a popular songwriter. Like Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg, he writes wholly for shows. His charming music would fit well into the best of Viennese operettas. When Alexander Woollcott wrote his biography of Irving Berlin (1924), he asked Jerome Kern to supply a colleague's estimate. Kern was reminded...
...desires, for the sake of mere consistency, that these inept matrons should espouse the cause of World Revolution. They have their own contribution to offer America as a picturesque and well-behaved branch organization with all the badges and regalia of the Elks; Odd-Fellows, and the Legion, but also good-behavior and disinterestedness. Their program is bright and entertaining, as desired. But before the Daughters can hope to enlist youth, especially students in a program of "talking America up," faith in government, and country; they will have to yank themselves out of the political picture and indulge in some...
...mushroom days of the motor trade, air-cooled cars like Knox and Holmes were common. Only Franklin has survived. It survived not so much be cause of the winterproof feature as because of its quality. One of Franklin's best markets has long been among such mechanically inept persons as doctors, authors, professors who want big car com fort with small car economy. Founder Franklin prized his reputation for fine materials and scrupulous workmanship. Franklin, always a high-priced car, sells today from...