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...Morley's genius is reportorial rather than creative, analytic rather than synthetic. His forte is to break up nothing into its component parts. The big discovery of his life was, the saleability of trivia, set down in nice short sentences, and embellished by an occasional bright idea. So, from the fact that a French filling-station attendant in Quebec had never heard of Socony gasoline, to the no less interesting fact that sufficient okilchao will produce a walking pass-out sans hangover, he notes down everything which makes an imprint on his consciousness in his little brown note-book, later...
...Morley "essay" is a peculiar literary form, neither fish, flesh, nor, fowl. It combines a bit of Chesterton with a good deal of Winchell, and now and then a touch of Mencken or Edgar Guest, to make a distinctive type of chatty writing. As a rule, his sketches are neither very amusing nor very dull. His most recent collection. "Internal Revenue", follows the norm, save that less of it is amusing and more of it is dull...
will appear on Wednesday. New books by Dorothy Parker. Andre Maurois, T.S. Eliot, Stephen Graham, Ralph Raeder and Christopher Morley will be reviewed...
Sixty-five members of the Glee Club will take part in the program, which will include the following numbers: "Drake's Drum", Coleridge-Taylor; "The Pedlar," Russian folk song; choruses from "The Gondoliers," Gilbert and Sullivan; "Shoot False Love," Morley; "Bonnie Dundee," Scottish folk song; "Crudele Irene," Italian folk song. If time permits "Fair Harvard" will be sung at the conclusion of the program...
...Saturday Review's personal column started when Poet Louis Untermeyer returned from a trip to Sardinia with a donkey which he wanted to sell. He accepted Editor Canby's suggestion to advertise it in the Saturday Review. Editor Canby and Colyumist Morley insist that none of the advertisements is written in the office...