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...whose position as National Champion Castigator is challenged only by his fellow idealist, Critic Henry Louis Mencken, has made another large round-up of grunting, whining, roaring, mewing, driveling, snouting creatures-of fiction- which, like an infuriated swineherd, he can beat, goad, tweak, tail-twist, eye-jab, belly-thwack, spatter with sty-filth and consign to perdition. The new collection closely resembles the herd obtained on the Castigator's last foray, against the medical profession (Arrowsmith, 1925) and a parallel course is run, from up-creek tabernacles, through a hayseed college and seminary to a big-city edifice with...
There can be no question of the author's encyclopaedic knowledge of native and military life in North Africa. He is one of the few novelists on record who can spatter their pages with italicized words-jellabias, bassourabs, girbas, tohs, fil-fil, mehara, hareem, Bismillah!-without seeming unduly affected. His dialogs crackle, his humor sparkles. He lets Mary Van- brugh mock his hero throughout with snatches from the song of Abdul, the Bulbul Emir. He introduces Mary's Cockney maid, Maudie, to ridicule "sheik fiction" of the E. M. Hull type...
...Garrick Gaieties. Manhattan's drowsy acceptance of May inactivity in the theatre was disturbed last week when the young persons of the Theatre Guild revealed their second annual spatter of satire called the Garrick Gaieties. Their activities were as ingratiating as ever, but perhaps not so brilliantly supplied with material as last year...
Last but not least, let us spatter a brief word of praise upon F. M. Eaton '27 for his admirable rendering of a very difficult part--General Washington. First and always, he must maintain a dignity which will at no time seem ridiculous, even when he has to conduct a tete a tete with Miss Dashwood. The authors of the show have happily given him every opportunity to do "Washington justice, especially when he recites the Legend of the Durms, a serious dramatic monologue near the beginning of the second act. If the company are human, they, and especially Eaton...
Upon investigation it was found that seven-year-old deteriorated War ammunition had been used in the guns. Although they had been properly elevated and fired, the "half dead" propelling charges had carried the bullets just far enough to spatter them down among the officer observers...