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David Cornell is perfect as the braggart general -- very big and very bass. James Lardner, as the young love interest, has little poise and less animation, but he delivers a strong lyric. Leland Moss plays the part of the funny old lecher Senex as if he were not supposed to be old, lecherous, or funny. As Senex's wife, Gladys Smith has the right looks and voice, but she is a weak comedienne...
...craft, "We are the ballyhoo guys to bring people into the author's tent," and did so in both books and such magazines as Redbook and The Saturday Evening Post, where his fine-lined, highly realistic drawings embellished the stories of O. Henry, Booth Tarkington, Ring Lardner, F. Scott Fitzgerald; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...quality of TV comedy leaves something to be desired, the quantity of written humor is pitifully small; most writers with a comic talent have been lured by the wide exposure and high pay of TV. No replacements have been found for such essayists as Benchley, Ring Lardner, Don Marquis. Frank Sullivan. There is no longer a Thurber, expressing in word and picture the uneasiness of modern life and the war between the sexes. "Funny men don't seem to write books these days," laments Russell Baker. Nightclub humor-what there is of it-is also in bad shape...
...Smith in charge of organization, the Rhodesian Front sprouted like mealies on the veld at Gatooma. All the rightist fringe groups, including the Dominion Party of Contractor William John Harper (now Internal Affairs Minister), got into the act, as did such present powers as South Africa-born Lawyer Desmond Lardner-Burke...
...success formula: "Get the money." His cold blue eyes discouraged friendship. From his altitude in journalism he could reach a hand down to promising young comers -Bob Considine, Paul Gallico -only to turn on them if they seemed to threaten his position. One he always cut was Ring Lardner, whom Runyon suspected -rightly -was a writer of far greater in sight, substance and style...