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...colonels and bank directors practice an exquisite snobbishness. A boy's standing depends largely on whether his "pater" has "tons of tin" and what expensive delicacies stock his "grub box." The healthy mind in a healthy body, classic goal of public schools, degenerates into a mens corrupted by smut and a corpus battered by flogging...
...Girl from Nantucket (book by Paul Stanford & Harold Sherman; music by Jacques Belasco; lyrics by Kay Two-mey). Offering the season's most cranked-out tunes, most threadbare gags, most feeble-minded smut, and strangest notion of a ballet, The Girl from Nantucket rated -and got from Manhattan reviewers-the critical equivalent of a well-aimed flyswatter...
...Wages of Sin. Cleanliness is a latter-day worry of Confessions' publishers, the four sons of "Captain Billy" Fawcett. Since building the family fortune on the smokehouse smut of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, they have made crime pay (Daring Detective, Startling Detective, Dynamic Detective), profited from pleasing the star-struck (Movie Story, Motion Picture), discovered that respectability is the most...
...case, though dutifully dippy at intervals, Laffing Room Only is more often just a loud, vulgar Broadway revue-corn, slapstick and smut, with some fancy production numbers thrown in for size. The slapstick and smut are out of vaudeville's filing cabinet, and the bottom drawers at that. The production numbers, if easy to look at, are nothing to listen to. The corn, as usual, is served up home-style with the audience encouraged to compete for prizes, wave handkerchiefs, sing round songs, dance with chorines-as though they were paying for exercise as well as entertainment...
...great vaudevillians and conceivably the greatest master of ceremonies of his day, Fay shows not a trace of breeziness, brassiness or smut. His manner is almost prim, his delivery slow, his material largely pointless. For one drawled gag like "Had a date with a newspaperwoman the other night-yes, she keeps a stand," there are a dozen droll nothings that are triumphs of timing and intonation...