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...form, the duality of imagination and action is developed along the usual lines. The title, and the use of the obelisk as a symbol, have only a tenuous bond with the solid flesh of the story. The sincerity of the narration and the freedom from sophisticated or psychological patter are the bright points...
Sidney J. Perelman is Judge's able artist-author of many a crazy drawing, crazy patter. His form of humor: to satirize the commonplace by exaggerating it. His puns are so startling they are often funny; his patchwork of hackneyed phrases so unexpected and alliterative it often shocks you into laughter. Alliterative, too, are his illustrations. With Quentin J. Reynolds of the New York Evening World he has written a lively, whimsical, improbable but satirical yarn in which his hand is evident but not quite evident enough. The chapter-headings, take-offs on an old tradition, are obviously Perelman...
...Bound--46 9 Bow Street W. L. Breese 54 Dunster Street D. Gerry 26 Holyoke Place T. Mason 60 Mt. Auburn Street C. Allen 68 Mt. Auburn Street W. K. Sturges 5 LINDEN STREET Floors 1 and 2 P. Palmer Floors 3 and 4 W. S. Patter 59 Plympton St., C. S. Petrasch, Jr. GORE A Entry D. Booth--A-11 B Entry W. S. Youngman--B-12 C Entry G. Kunashevsky, Jr. C-21 D Entry K. L. Myers, Jr.--D-11 E Entry W. M. Heyl--E-43 STANDISH A Entry B. B. Wygant...
...Nidaros" (pronounced Nee-dar-oss)?effective Jan. 1, 1930. To many a Trondhjemmer's ear the sound of "Nidaros" is ugly, coarse, repugnant. Soon 25,000 irate citizens (nearly half Trondhjem's population) mass-met under a lowering sky, furiously handclapped speeches of indignation as rain began to patter, signed under umbrellas a potent petition of protest. On dispersing to their homes they expressed their feelings further by breaking several Trondhjem windows...
...Society of American Magicians (total membership about 1,650), held their annual convention last week in Manhattan and brotherly baffling was the order of the hour. The magicians dined and danced. Then, in secret session, they baffled each other and exchanged secrets about new or improved apparatus, magicianly "patter" (conversation) and humor, the art of distracting the attention of the tricked from the trickery...