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Christopher Morley, whose taste is not always unexceptionable, might have picked a better name for his latest hero than Richard Roe. The name, with other Roe-ish actions and qualities, will irresistibly remind many a reader who has seen the Pulitzer-Prizewinning Of Thee I Sing of that forgotten man, Alexander Throttlebottom. Author Morley has not tried to make his hero heroic but he has certainly not intended to go to the other extreme and make him vicepresidential...
...Britain, the fall in freight loadings would force the Great Southern to abandon all service and return its territory to the pony and the jaunting car. He was particularly bitter against the $1 a ton tax on British coal. The fire-boxes of his locomotives are adjusted for Brit ish coal only...
...nearly everyone remembers, the name "Kabibble" comes from the familiar expression of two decades ago, "Ish kabibble" ("I should worry"). It is a corruption of the Yiddish jargon "nisht gefidelt" which meant the same thing but was hard for Gentiles to pronounce. Cartoonist Hershfield, who takes the action of King Features much to heart, last week promised "the biggest national fight you ever saw." Said he: "I am fighting for my natural right to earn a living. ... I claim that the character and his name are virtually chemical to myself and that no one should interfere with my right...
Friends of Dr. Budlong thought he would accept the Bishop Coadjutorship. If he does so he will give up a pleasantly middle-of-the-road-ish parish; a salary of $12,000 a year; a large residence; an automobile ; an impressive socialite congregation. As Bishop Coadjutor he would get $7,000 a year and $3,400 for expenses...
Miss Brice does her celebrated Jewish interpretation of Peter Pan ("It ish Dink-a-Bell!"). She is again very funny as the slightly Semitic Southern girl in her travesty on Strictly Dishonorable, but not so funny in a maudlin recitation of Dorothy Parker's Telephone Call. Mr. Baker trades gags with his fat friend in a box, sings an ingratiating song called "Under The Clock At The Astor," indicating with his stick "females and he-males and she-males, and girls who bear loneliness well." Attention is called to the best of Crazy Quilt's songs...