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...coat, criticize second rate statuary, attend night clubs, horse-races and a dancing class, gargling quiet wisecracks as he does so. The story, adapted from a play by George Ade called Father and the Boys, shows how a dyspeptic and chronically disgruntled businessman becomes revitalized in an effort to outdo his lively offspring. His sons suspect him of reckless conduct with a vivacious lady (Fifi Dorsay), suspect that his nose, withdrawn from the grindstone, will become tarnished by inebriation. Instead, his lively antics cause him to regain health and good spirits so thoroughly that he suggests a line...
...Comet is practically barren of reputable advertising despite the hiring of mercenary or publicity-hungry clergymen to write daily editorials. But on the theory that a million circulation-no matter what its class- will force advertisers to buy space, the Comet and its competitors push on, trying to outdo each other in nauseous antics. And that weird battle robs Editor Peters of his bitterest competitor and closest friend-Editor Anthony Wayne of the Lantern. Here Author Gauvreau makes no attempt to obscure the figure of the late Editor Philip Payne of the Mirror, to whom the book is dedicated. Beaten...
...Lionel de Jersey Harvard. Victor Emmanuel Chapman, and Bayard Cutting Fellowships in particular. They lack concreteness, perhaps, but there may be some among the alumni to whom a memorial is something more than the mere piling of one brick on top of another in a successful attempt to outdo in uselessness all previous war memorials. A World War Memorial Scholarship and Fellowship Fund could never be the laughing stock of Cambridge, it would fill a pressing need, and would materially aid the teaching of the arts of peace. J. J. Horton...
...Prince's dogs outdo the Grand Duke's in the hunt. Enraged, that fine gentleman flicks an eye from one of his hounds with his whip and gets toweringly drunk after dinner. It is unpleasant to think of him as commander of all Russia's cavalry and, later, of all the Russian armies. For even the dogs are conscious that something unusual, something dark and dreadful is coming to pass-the War, entered into by the Romanovs to gloss over their moral and mental shortcomings. To a dog like Siedoi, excitement is always welcome...
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 by the Boston Symphony under Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky (Victor, $10)?A magnificent, high-powered reading of the Pathetique in which the Boston strings outdo themselves...