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Elmer is here again. In case you haven't been following Ring Lardner's epic of baseball's biggest swell-head. Elmer, whether on screen or stage, has for years and years been Joe E. Brown. For those interested in statistics, his mouth has stretched exactly one-eighth of an inch, which only makes his smile the more enticing and allows him to shovel down ham, doughnuts, milk and pie in an increasing ratio throughout the play. Between these two processes, Joe E. is as human, lovable and Laughable as ever...
Twelve years ago George M. Cohan and the late, great Ring Lardner pooled their talents and their mutual enthusiasm for baseball, produced Elmer the Great, a farcical saga of a rookie pitcher with an arm like a whip and a Model T brain. A story goes when Lardner first saw the show on Broadway, he was convinced that it was terrible. He acknowledged as his own only one line of the script. He underestimated both the play and his part in its conception. Elmer spoke Ring Lardners language, proved as durable as his Alibi Ike. Last week, with...
...articles, mainly second-rate, by the late D. H. Lawrence and Thome Smith, by John Dos Passes, Erskine Caldwell, Theodore Dreiser, John Steinbeck, Westbrook Pegler; The Snows of Kilimanjaro, one of the most ambitious and psychologically the most painful of Hemingway's stories; a wide-open Ring Lardner razz of wrestling ("Come on, Alexis; take me. Anything but a toehold."); Helen Brown Norden's famous Latins Are Lousy Lovers-which is less interesting in itself than in its unintended suggestion that American women are lousy...
...among them Chicago's Mayor William E. Dever, Jane Addams, the Duncan Sisters. Actress Ethel Barrymore was led up to the mike and, affrighted, throbbed "Oh my God!," was then led away. Piped from Manhattan to Chicago were the congratulatory voices of Rudolph Valentino, Arthur Brisbane and Ring Lardner...
...Gramercy Park's Players. Its keynote is breezy good-fellowship-a slangy, vulgar love of life that has appealed, not only to pinochle-playing actors in loud check suits, but also to such men as Richard Harding Davis, Joseph Jefferson, Barney Baruch, Father Duffy, George Ade, Ring Lardner, John Philip Sousa, Stanford White, Victor Herbert...