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Papp's company prances through this reductio ad absurdum. Especially good is Robert Ronan as a Ptydepe instructor lecturing a class on interjections: " 'Psst!' becomes 'cetudap,' 'mmnn' becomes 'vamyl,' the poetic 'oh!' is rendered in Ptydepe by 'hrulugyp.' Our very important 'hurrah!' becomes in Ptydepe 'frnygko jefr dabux altep dy sa-varub goz terexes...
There are many other pieces under such titles as Beat Me, Post-Impressionist Daddy, Caution-Soft Prose Ahead, Psst, Partner, Your Peristalsis is Showing. They handle, with the expertness required for delivering a two-headed baby, the aching half-lunacies which turn up as a normal part of U.S. life. They use one of the rangiest and most microscopically exact vocabularies in modern letters-a vocabulary drawn entirely from those ancient, current and emergent clichés of which Flaubert and Joyce were both collectors and which are as diagnostic of a civilization as any ten theses on the Zeitgeist...
...honor this summer recalled these as well as the great series of etchings of the life of Christ he made about 1910. Few of them recalled that he was a violent Jew-baiter, that during the days of the Dreyfus case he helped found the anti-Semitic paper Psst. He was little remembered for the vicious propaganda pictures he drew during the Franco-German and World Wars. In New York last week the Caz-Delbo Galleries had an important showing of his paintings and water colors under the auspices of the French Government. At the Knoedler Galleries was a special...