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From Germany last week arrived the first extensive report on a piquant subject, Adolf Hitler's grammar. As is well known to German editors and foreign correspondents, the Führer, at the height of his harangues, often leaves his prepared official text and soars off in silver-tongued bombast, only to become lost in the inversions of German sentence structure. Foreign newshawks watch for these flights to cable facetious cracks at the Führer's grammar. Vexed by such treatment, Hitler recently acted in defense of his eloquence. He set up no less than an Official...
...critics agreed that Composer Carpenter had learned something, but could not quite say what it was. Some attempts: "None-too-deeply-ecstatic emotionalism of a facile fantasy . . . rhythmic vitality . . . mercurial elusiveness. ... It sings . . . in a world of its own, where a man may . . . stand aloof and comment, with some piquant glee, upon his own absurdity...
...Theatre Guild decided to produce Ferenc Molnar's The Guardsman. Its chief characters were a married actor and actress, its theme a test of fidelity. The Guild's canny Theresa Helburn saw the piquant possibilities of casting a happily-married stage couple in the parts. The tremendous success of The Guardsman led to 14 more such pairings. The Lunts are now known throughout the U. S. as the leading Mr. and Mrs. of the theatre...
Since these characters achieved prominence in a piquant period, it was to be expected that something in the way of written reminiscences would sooner or later appear. But Bohemians are notoriously lackadaisical about such matters, and though Kiki's Memoirs (Black Manikin Press; Paris, 1930) and Hamnett's Laughing Torso (Long & Smith, 1932) have been published, it was to small audiences; the panning of Montparnasse gold has been largely left to the more journalistically-minded. Third in the authentic train, Jimmy Charters' narrative would be condemned forthwith as a rehashing of minor and well-chewed-over material...
...read a piquant item in the catalog in which swank American Art Association Anderson Galleries last week were describing parcels to be auctioned in Manhattan Dec. 9 & 10. Special clients who were permitted to pore through these early editions of Herr Hitler's Battle found many another rare bit of the Leader's wishful anthropology, since suppressed, revised or left out in translation. Samples...