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...Lardner has not shirked a single chance to rid himself of the reputation for "depth" which jealous fellow-writers recently fastened upon him. He puns along stoutly, just to show what he cares for humor. " 'If you do,' " he remembers a laundress retorting to one of his advances, " 'I will be hot under the collar.'" And he unblushingly sets down his comeback: "'Underwear...
...example, the Tsarina Cath- arine I was a laundress, the daughter of Lithuanian serfs. She washed some foul breeches so charmingly for a trooper, that a sergeant took her for his doll. From her knobby washboard she vaulted, with the ad- miration of an army corps, beyond the antechamber of Peter the Great. He was a humorist-perhaps the greatest. With a fillip never equaled by another monarch he set his laundress, bouncing and buxom, on the world's tallest throne...
Naturally no comparison can be drawn between the Laundress-Empress and Mrs. Rosa Lewis.* The Seventh Edward, though jovial, was no such humorist as Peter the Great. He merely liked his tidbits well prepared. When Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented her cook, Mrs. Rosa Lewis,± to Edward VII (the Prince of Wales) and told him she was a good cook he never doubted it. "Damme," said Edward, "She takes more pains with a cabbage than with a chicken. . . . She gives me nothing sloppy, nothing colored up to dribble...
CHRISTINA ALBERTA'S FATHER- H. G. Wells-MacMillan ($2.50). Returning to a dilatory manner that he had before he began inventing worlds, Mr. Wells writes of the husband and daughter of a London laundress and what they did when, their capable relative dying, they shook off the suds and embarked upon a career untrammeled by clotheslines. It is a contemporaneous chronicle, in the age of Ramsay MacDonald, broadcasting and world-flying. So that there are several "remarkable experiences", especially for Widower Preemby, despite the fact that some of the minor characters play Canfield every evening...
...classic of the French stage and is played before backgrounds of Fontainebleau and Compiegne loaned specially by the Republic. These backgrounds and the costumes are extraordinary. The story cannot match them nor can the performance of the actress. The usually dependable Miss Swanson overplays the little laundress who rose to be a Duchess. She could not remember not to say "ain't" and got herself in trouble with the Princesses, Napoleon's sisters. A great many francs and a lot of actors from the Comedie Française went into the manufacture of all this. On its appearance...