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...Lawford contented themselves with perfecting the background of small parts. Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's cordial comedy of life behind the scenes of a small English playhouse never was better played. All in all a rare week. Spooks is a mystery play. Borrowing a descriptive bit from Ring Lardner, one might say that the mystery was how it came to be produced. It is one more of those complicated compasses varying to every point in the circle except the point of actual guilt. A few minutes before you go home, the true offender is ferreted out, love is rewarded...
WHAT OF IT?-Ring Lardner-Scribner ($2.00). Shakespeare has often been called, doubtless with complimentary intention, "the myriad-minded." If to be myriad-minded means to have an intellect which is supremely like the intellect of the myriads, Ring Lardner is the Shakespeare of the U. S. In person, great-nosed, lean-a melancholy marabou of a man-he understands as no one else alive the U. S. buddy ballplayer, salesman, cop, yegg, bootlegger and poobah. His wit crackles like static, loud enough to disguise, but never to obscure, the grave or bitter tune that runs behind...
...ships: On the Olympic (White Star)-Viscount Wimborne, onetime Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (1915-18), the principal financial backer of the British In- ternational Polo Team. On the Mauretania (Cunard)-Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, wife of the eminent publisher. On the Paris (French)-Reginald C. Vanderbilt, famed clubman; Ring Lardner, professional humorist...
...WRITE SHORT STORIES (WITH SAMPLES)?Ring Lardner ? Scribner ($2.00). Ring Lardner is experiencing the difficult honor of being overpraised by those zealous critics whose word of endorsement is death to ambition. Adored by H. L. Mencken, Gilbert Seldes and F. P. Awood Broun, he will need all his humor and poise to keep from showing off. Thus far he has succeeded. The delightful thing about this book of short stories is not the amusing burlesque framework, ridiculing those textbooks that offer to teach illiterate soda-clerks to earn $25,000 in the writing business...
...SEVEN LIVELY ARTS?Gilbert Seldes?Harper ($4.00). This annoying but pertinent book would persuade one that slapstick comedy, jazz music, comic strips and Ring Lardner are the most worth-while contemporary revelations of the soul of America, and that the Krazy Kat cartoons are "the most satisfactory work of art produced in America today." Mr. Seldes, whose present occupation is the more unexpected in that he is known as a critic of the major arts, here takes up the cudgels in behalf of the so-called "lowbrow" products...