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...AUNTIE MAME (280 pp.) - Patrick Dennis - Vanguard...
...President oft-twitted, was rudely chucked under the chin last week by Socialist-Sophist Upton Sinclair of Pasadena, who announced the publication of an allegedly humorous political satire entitled The Spokesman's Secretary: Being the Letters of Mame to Mom. Stenographer Mame reports the antics of -"the greatest Man in the whole wide world" astride an electric "camelephant" (exercise machine) and how she tells him what to tell newsgatherers to tell the people to think. Author Sinclair's announcement betrayed lame borrowings from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, moronese novelette by Author Anita Loos...
Harvard.3 Holy Cross. 0 Harvard. 41 Mame. 0 Harvard. 21 Valparaiso. 0 Harvard. 38 Williams. 0 Harvard. 31 Centre...
Just before our Christmas holiday, a little down east "schoolmarm" desired to take her hand bag and start for Chicago. From Mame to Illinois, to her, seemed a great distance, for never had she ventured from the shadow of her native hills, never gone beyond the sound of dear old Ocean. More than this she must go alone-"a woeful, solitaire mayd." Nothing daunted by slories of disagreeable things which interested friends took pains to relate were sure to happen at this particular season of the year, she enters the sleeper, (for the first time in her life) in Boston...