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...Prosecution. Once again Farrell's satire is "like elephants out for a good romp" (as the late New Republic critic Otis Ferguson aptly described it). The dialogue, as usual, is tone-deaf, and the adverbial crunches devastating (Bernard "winced inwardly"; "'Blah!' the drunk angrily ejaculated...
Agents or middlemen . . . romp in circles, like porpoises on the high seas, around the big sharks. . . . They are, in a sense, the most honest of the lot, for they frankly admit that they would just as soon sell cars or pyramids...
...Fours Romp. The high points in the Memoirs are Mr. Wilson's soon-to-be-notorious love story, The Princess with the Golden Hair, and The Milhollands and Their Damned Soul. The Milhollands is an uproarious allfours romp through the whole world of U.S. writing, publishing and book-promotion. There is the eager young Yaleman who, after feeling that his "generation" has been "betrayed," first by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, then by the Marxists, winds up ballyhooing bellywash on national hookups. There is the Purity League's investigation of the Booklover when its personal columns sprout...
Vehicle jobs, for the Lunts, have a sort of advantage over solider plays: the pair can trot out their whole repertory of tricks, they can be versatile and uninhibited, they can be Lunt & Fontanne. In O Mistress Mine they romp happily up & down the comedy ladder-high comedy and broad comedy, badinage and burlesque-wowing the audience on every rung. If Actress Fontanne is a little too bubbly and gurgly at times, few of the customers seem to mind...
...With both Fullback Vic Kulbitski and Coach Bernie Bierman back from Marine duty, Minnesota was in bloom again. A 34-to-0 romp over Missouri, with Kul-bitski running wild and scoring three touchdowns, hinted that the Big Ten race might be decided when Minnesota met Ohio State...