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...critical essays, Mr. Van Doren again applies a skilful scalpel to his literary contemporaries. The very titles of the chapters are a triumph: Smartness and Light, for H. L. Mencken; Youth and Wings, for Edna St. Vincent Millay; Flame and Slag, for Carl Sandburg; Beyond Grammar, for Ring Lardner. He covers the field of philosophers, poets, wits, essayists. His estimates are tempered with sympathy, humor, real understanding. He praises and blames ; weighs faults against virtues. One reads on absorbedly for some time before one becomes subtly conscious that no final criticism has been made, no judgment pronounced. In the last...
...came McAdoo with 6,611 votes. And after him, in order, Ford, Hughes, Wilson, Hoover, Underwood, Hiram Johnson, Pinchot, La Follette, Borah, Lowden, W. J. Bryan, John W. Davis, Ralston, Glass, Alfred E. Smith, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mellon. Tied for last place (with one vote each) were Ring Lardner and John Davison Rockefeller...
...Brothers Zaitzeff", are the most hilarious of the musical numbers, while "A Night at Yard's", and "Ei Ukhnem" are unforgettably dramatic in their relation of Siavic feeling and character. An Anglo Saxon feels as embarrassed listening to the almost barbaric gypsy songs as if he were impersonating Ring Lardner's "wolf crawling into a bathroom window", but the Russians revel in them with genuine ecstasy and abandon. In "The Sudden Death of a Horse", one's ignorance of the language, which is an astonishingly slight handicap throughout, prevents any understanding of the dialogue, but the action to so vivid...
...Some writers and cinema men. (For example, Charles Hanson Towne, poet; Carl Laemmle, movie actor; Ring Lardner, humorist; Briggs, McManus, Goldberg, cartoonists...
...American poet, his vogue is vanishing amid an incessant attack and counterblast of the younger literati themselves. The authors of The Forty-Niners (recent dramatic fiasco) eat lunch four times a week with the young critics, but they did not save Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Marc Connolly, and Ring Lardner from a sound critical lashing. Heywood Broun's novel The Boy Grew Older was enthusiastically welcomed by the older and more conventional reviewers, but Broun's friends ridiculed and disparaged it as viciously as if it had been written by Zane Grey...