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...engaged herself to the son of the house, whose great ambition is to become a veterinary: such is the assemblage. To give them excuse for talking through three acts, a drove of ailing pigs is introduced. The son wants to buy the pigs, cure them, sell for a plump profit that will take the mortgage off the house. Eventually he does so. In the meanwhile, there are two hours of pretty consistent amusement?due in no small part to the expert character-playing of Nydia Westman, Wallace Ford, Maud Granger and George Henry Trader...
...delegates, men and women masquerading as cowboys set up a hullabaloo and began to march. At the head of the column on the shoulders of two men was Miss Josephine Dorman, plump San Franciscan in red, white and blue. She sang, shouted, hurrahed for her candidate. She did it till she was red in the face, almost hysterical. Other women joined in the frenzy. Cornetists aggravated it. Cheerleaders inspired it. Songs bolstered it. Those who took part were the group opposite to that which had paraded against the Ku Klux. Klan. The Herculean effort wore itself...
...late in the Fall of 1922, some 18 months ago, that this Texan?a round-faced, plump man, somewhere in his forties, looking not unlike a successful, energetic politician?was elevated to the Wizardry from whence he directs the affairs of the Klan, controlling all the Imperial Genii?Klaliffs, Klaziks, Klokards, Kludds, Kligrapps, Klabees, Kladds, Klarogos, Klexters, Klonsels, Night Hawks,?as well as Kleagles, Giants, Cyclopes, Titans Klepeers, Goblins, Dragons, Terrors, Klokans and common Klansmen?supreme over all the Klantons, Provinces and Realms of the Invisible Empire as well as Klonvocations, Klonciliums and Klonclaves as set forth...
Said Lawrence Oilman, famed critic: "Mr. Wagner is 55 years old-of medium height, plump, white-haired, clean-shaven. In profile he looks like a blend of George Washington, Chauncey M. Depew and the composer of Tristan. His general aspect is that of a lymphatic vestryman. He is almost uncannily undemonstrative. . . . He conducts with astonishing casualness. . . . His listlessness makes the conductional apathy of Richard Strauss seem epileptic by comparison...
...wholesale homicide occurs in a dream. The manufacturer's family have camped on the composer's trail with cannibalistic eyes. They have considered him a plump, promising morsel to be gobbled up in matrimony by Fluffy Daughter. In a drug-inspired vision the composer (Roland Young) fancies himself actually shackled to the family. He is forced to devote his talents to frenziedly manufacturing widgets-whatever they are. The natural result is that he slays them all in disgust. Follows a great lark of a trial, wherein a jury of critics decides his fate according to the worth...