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...about his revue but I would not let him, it being [my] firm policy to know as little as possible before the opening performance. So Todd and I chatted about stage humor and he told of his own high principles ... So I went to Peep Show . . . There came a sketch-a strip-tease number ... It was in the lowest possible taste. [There was also] an old burlesque number involving a girl who could twirl her breasts ... I felt sorry for the lovely young ladies of the company...
...Paris was liberated, he copied a watercolor sketch by Poussin "as an exercise in self-discipline." He greeted the first American soldiers who came to his studio with kisses, exclaiming: "You two are so lovely...
Playwright Kelly's famous portrait of a braggart is still an amusing one. If The Show-Off seems protracted now, it seemed already diluted in 1924, for in an earlier and more brilliant form it was a vaudeville sketch. But its best bits are among the funniest of all tilting at windbags. The strutting $32.50-a-week clerk, who is neither cowed by the law he flouts nor squelched by the mother-in-law he infuriates, is most alive when most farcical. Lee Tracy plays him with noisy but un-brutal gusto, making him far more ham than horror...
...book also features a statistical sketch of the undergraduate and an account of Radcliffe's views on the typical Harvard...
...Artist's Eye. Nevertheless, the romance of a picture magazine became a 26,000-copy sensation on the day Founder Herbert Ingram, grandfather of the present editor, brought out the first issue in May 1842. It carried spot-news sketches of Queen Victoria's fancy-dress ball at Buckingham Palace, and of an "immense conflagration" at Hamburg. Drawn from eyewitness accounts, the Hamburg sketch appeared on Page One only a few days after news of the fire reached London...