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Among the discoveries of Dr. Sears, found when he was investigating why an audience of forty assorted Harvard and Cambridge residents would not laugh at his jokes, was the fact that meek people just love to be targets for witticisms. This is, apparently, contrary to established opinion...
Next day a short resolution was steamrollered through the ABA machine, promising cooperation, requesting in very meek terms a balanced budget. But a majority of the delegates were as boisterously antagonistic as ever. They howled applause as Pundit David Lawrence delivered a sizzling attack on the New Deal. In their lobby talk they agreed with the New York Herald Tribune that the President had thoroughly ''buttered'' them...
...Englander, who delights in insulting the lesser members of his family. And it is a compliment to his ability that he can insult them, for they are a pretty scaly lot. His sister Augusta (Edna May Oliver) is a scrawny, self-starting weeper; his only son (Donald Meek) is a fawning, scheming hypocrite, who spends his time making a record of his father's eccentricities with a view to proving him insane...
...Paramount). This version of Alice Hegan Rice's homely novel of the 1890's provides a cinema debut for able Actress Pauline Lord (Anna Christie, The Late Christopher Bean). As a poor goodwife in a decrepit shack, her activities include mothering five moppets, hoping her husband (Donald Meek) will return from the Klondike with gold, accepting charity from a rich girl and the rich girl's suitor. Mrs. Wiggs befriends a fluttery spinster (ZaSu Pitts) whom she aids in acquiring a husband (W. C. Fields) from a matrimonial agency. Mrs. Wiggs's second son dies...
...PROUD AND THE MEEK-Jules Romains-Knopf ($2.50). Slowly but surely Jules Romains is building his skyscraper novel of modern Paris. Men of Good Will. Last week U. S. gazers saw the third floor finished. Though it is still too soon to judge the architecture of the building, critics had already divided in their previews: some called it superb, others jerry-built. Men-in-the-street, content merely to watch the structure go up, told themselves it was beginning to look more like the real thing. Readers of the first two volumes (Men of Good Will, Passion's Pilgrims...