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...superb musical satirist, he could also turn out sentimental waltzes and respectable grand opera, but his specialty was cancan, with its piston-like rhythm and irrepressible gaiety. Orpheus contains some of his best satire and his best cancan tunes. The libretto used at Lambertville (by the late Ring Lardner, with additional lyrics by Edward Eager) tries to modernize the original. The result is stained Varsity-Show humor, but still...
...picked 22 written between 1881 and 1931. All the stories in the Scribner Treasury "won immediate public favor" when they first appeared, however, and the demand for them "has never ceased." Among the storytellers in the collection: Edith Wharton, John Galsworthy, Thomas Nelson Page, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, Ring Lardner and Sir James Barrie. Among the other Scribner storytellers notably passed over: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe and Ernest Hemingway...
...Confederate battery decide what they must do after they hear the news of Appomattox. In Mary Andrews' The Perfect Tribute, Abraham Lincoln learns from a dying Southern captain that his speech at Gettysburg was not, after all, a failure. In tone, the stories range from Ring Lardner's deadpan barbershop talk in Haircut to the old-school nourishes of New Orleans' George W. Cable in Madame Delphine: "She was just passing 17-that beautiful year when the heart of the maiden still beats quickly with the surprise of her new dominion, while with gentle dignity her brow...
...humorous highpoints of the evening were quotations from Mark Twain and Ring Lardner; however, the panelists managed to define their particular concepts of what humor is--or should...
...story, The Natural, is told by Brooklynite First-Novelist Bernard Malamud. In some parts it is just about the best baseball yarning since the late great Ring Lardner put the cover on his typewriter. One side of The Natural is broad farce, in which Novelist Malamud kids the legends of baseball prowess. The other side of Roy's story is pitched to the theme of American tragedy. He had come up to the leagues once before as a youngster, only to be shot by a madwoman in a Chicago hotel the night before he was to report...