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...merry ditty on the hunt introduces us to the Hall of Fame, which is unfortunate in itself because the lead is not characteristic, and the rhyme scheme, borrowed from the "Night Before Christmas" (we suppose with apologies to Santa Claus) lacks ingenuity. This is the first vision in Lampy's nightmare. We turn the page and the inconsistency staggers us. Herman's wife, William Tell, Cyrano de Bergerac and something indelicate about women undressing in newspaper headlines, poke the spectator feebly in the ribs but no responsive laugh comes forth, because there is no sense of reality...
...hero was in her room at a certain embarrassing hour, hence could not have murdered the Russian spy, nor have stolen the important papers. For this strategic fib the Austrians give her the freedom of the army, and the hero. Again Pola Negri finds herself decorating a Hollywood nursery-rhyme...
...British mothers were widely vexed at the thought that they had taught their children a rhyme about a cross put up to honor the onetime Kaiser's mother. Well posted fathers might have explained: "The original Banbury Cross was torn down by the Banbury Puritans in 1610 as a detested Papist symbol...
...length she mentioned music. She was Chicago-bound, to sing for four weeks in a new opera, Judith, with music by Arthur Honegger, the Frenchman, and libretto by the French-Swiss M. Morax. Chicagoans pricked up their ears at this: "Compared with Judith, Salome** is only a nursery rhyme, a lullaby, and the critics had better start sharpening their pencils...
...William Ralph Inge, pronounced to rhyme with King...