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PUSS IN BOOTS (28 pp.)-Translated by Marcia Brown-Scribner ($2). A free translation from the French of Charles Perrault makes this classic bubble with mirth while Marcia Brown's illustrations blaze with color...
...just as well that Producer Henry Blanke did not try to produce another "Lost Weekend," for if he had, "Come Fill the Cup" could only have been a second-rate imitation. Instead, beyond a bow or two to the problem of alcoholism, he offers a unique combination of mirth and thrills that can upset...
There is perhaps no comic strip that has so rapidly won its way into the hearts of the American people and into the pages of their newspapers as Pogo. The puny possum and his partner sin mirth poke fun at every subject from atom bombs to truant officers with corn and candor...
...York City Opera resurrected his old (1906) three-acter, I Quattro Rusteghi, never before performed in the U.S. Decked out in an English translation, The Four Ruffians made up in broad mirth anything it lacked in old-school elegance...
...nosed cop ("Go ahead and call the captain-he's drunker than I am") and hit big-time vaudeville in one jump. His first wife, a beautiful ex-burlesque soubrette named Mercedes Delpino, was his straight woman. LAHR AND MERCEDES, read big newspaper ads, A RIOT OF MIRTH AND IRRESISTIBLE COMEDY. He bought a Packard car and tailored suits, and dreamed of Broadway. "Bert," said the Broadway wise guys, "you're too burlesquey." But in 1927 he got his break. An ex-vaudevillian named Harry Delmar put a revue on Broadway, and asked Lahr to bring...