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...must be confessed that the performance of "Pinafore" was disappointing from a group that did such a magnificent job on "The Mikado" earlier in the week. For the first voice to really strike the ear in "The Mikado" was the clear baritone of Peacock as Pish-Tush (there isn't a bass in the entire company) and the next thing to hit was the ability of Ames. Then Peacock's voice cracked in "Trial by Jury" and broke in "Pinafore," while Ames couldn't talk by the end of the operetta. They have somewhat recovered, however...
...whole school of Victorian apologists. They have busily sold Shelley as an inspired listener to skylarks, with an unfortunate but irrelevant "interest in social revolution. Critic-Poet Francis Thompson advised would-be Shelleyans to "peep over the wild mass of revolutionary metaphysics" and discover that Bysshe (rhymes with pish) was just an "enchanted child...
Last week imaginative newsmen wrote that the Army was looking for squads of sweet young things to gladden the new soldier boys. Colonel Pfeil & associates pish-tushed these reports, harrumphed that Army hostesses will be just as impregnable as ever. How many Colonel Pfeil needs will be determined when he knows how many new huts (each one generally has three hostesses) he has to build for incoming Guardsmen, conscripts and one-year volunteers...
...fools even if they cannot hope to see it out." Suggested methods of winding it up: sabotage, political assassinations. But when one of his characters says: "The queer thing is that, when this lunatic comes to you and starts this idea in your head, you don't say Pish or Tush and just turn it down; you begin to have a vague sense that somehow you have felt something-you hardly know what," he expresses what the sympathetic reader feels about such a Wellsian book as Star-Begotten. And occasionally, as a good journalist may, Wells's burbling...
...their young lives away on Andromache and Karl Heinrich. Come to strut before Brattle brats and grovel before Deans. Come to sublimate their young instincts on Soldiers Field and the River Charles. Come to sublimate their young instincts on Soldiers Field and the River Charles. Come to write feeble pish for the Lampoon and pseudo-esoteric banalities for the Advocate. Come to study the nature of fine whiskies in final clubs. Come to get skulls cracked by the constabulary in City Square...