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...with theatrical fodder. Is Zat So? deals with prizefighting, and The Poor Nut with a track meet. The fight and the quarter-mile run are exhibited on the stage. Both are successes. Solid Ivory turns to baseball, and borrows in the process something of the slang sorcery of Ring Lardner...
...Lardner was not actually concerned in the writing of the play, yet the leading character resembles his celebrated Jack Keefe, the conceited, blatant young professional baseballer. If the resemblance had been accurate, Solid Ivory might have been a sensation. As it is, it is simply a fair slang comedy, glorifying the home...
...humorists are paid so much more than other writers. The average salary of a newspaper man is about $50 a week. The average for humorous writers is from $200 to $2000 dollars a week. Only a few men get the top figure, but there are some, Ring Lardner and Will Rogers, for instance...
...slang; to turn the enemy's own guns upon him. But the campaign might well be carried further by the embattled members of the Society for the Preservation of Pure English. George Ade, with his "Fables in Slang" could be given a chair in the Department of Classics; Ring Lardner should be appointed to a professorship in English; and Rube Goldberg ought immediately to be elected president of the Advocate...
...Weber-and-Fields of the publishing-business present the first collection ever wilfully made of those maundering melodies Mandy Lee, Sivect Adeline, I've Been Working on the Railroad, Some Folks Say That a Nigger Won't Steal, et al. There is a foreword by Ring Lardner, alleged basso. There is whimsical but practical explanation of the broad technique essential to impromptu cantatas-"swipes," "seventh heaven," "amen corner," Russian depths and breath control. Most important are the actual scores of a dozen much-mangled tunes and the standard words, disputes over which have rent asunder the closest...