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Recapture. When a man writes a smash hit, Broadway's ingenuous habitues always assume that his next play will be just as great a success. Recapture got them all excited because its author is Preston Sturges, whose Strictly Dishonorable (TIME, Sept. 30) is still a smash hit. In Strictly Dishonorable Playwright Sturges exhibits a talent for writing risque themes and a romanticism as all-pervading as that of Grimm and Hans Andersen. But he is not yet a playwright of stature. He can crack a smart joke, can treat sex with refinement; can also devise such ill-assembled, trivial...
Russian kisses bearing 40,000 germs apiece (TIME, Oct. 21) recall Kieth Preston's pun. Young lad), on being approached with osculation in mind, replies, "Don't, bacilli...
Died. Edwin Emery G. Slosson, 64, onetime (1891-1903) professor of chemistry in Wyoming, author Creative Chemistry, director of Publisher Edward Wyllis Scripps' Science Service (news syndicate); at Washington; of heart disease. His wife, May Preston Slosson, poetess, was Cornell's first woman Ph. D. "To get even with her" he studied several summers for a Ph. D. from the University of Chicago. He was the fountain head of the modern school of journalized science, making abstruse scientific processes into simple stories...
Detraining, the cadets will form and march from the railroad station to Boston Common for the review by Gov. Allen, Maj.-Gen. Preston Brown, Maj.-Gen. Smith, superintendent of West Point; Mayor Nichols and Mayor Quinn of Cambridge. The column will proceed along Huntington Avenue to Dartmouth Street, to Beacon Street, and thence to the Common, entering at the Charles Street-Beacon Street gate...
Superbly played, this saucy fairy tale by Preston Sturges is continuously gay. It is the season's first smash-hit, by a margin of one night over Rope's End (see below...