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...pathological pedophilia,' a symptom of a disease of the brain classified as a sexual aberration. . . ." The Mirror, too, strove for features to please child minds-an "interview" (in mixed dialects) with Mr, Browning's pet African goose; a history of the case in prize fight vernacular. Stenographers and clerks were asked to vote on which was worse, Mr. or Mrs. Browning. Each day a different verdict was manufactured...
...BIRDS-Diary of an Unknown Aviator-Doran ($3.50).* A glossy finish is not among this chronicle's properties. Not for effect but for grim, humorous, human record, and probably for relief, did the author set down in airmen's vernacular daily events and sensations from the day he sailed from Halifax to the eve of his death behind Germany's lines. Nor is it a philosopher's diary, but the blunt journal of a rather tough, inarticulate "war bird." He "laughs off" the emotion stirred in him by a full moon at sea, by guessing...
...with the early lives of its members - now all disguised as Brother Benedict, Brother Cosmos and the like (no Brothers Pete, Mike, Joe or Henry). The village, where the author grew up, is of a similar unworldliness - perhaps a thought too Arcadian since the villagers oscillate between the modern vernacular and a strong resemblance to Hans the blacksmith, ; Schwartz the butcher and other such traditional creatures. But out of his acquaintance with real monks Mr. Shuster has wrought an atmosphere of which the charm is quite beyond cavil, even the well-nigh inescabable air of proselyting being warded...
...only to learn that the straight and narrow path is, after all, the best. The little wife will have to wait for her Rolls Royce. The show is a sort of vaudevillian crazy quilt made out of gaudy wisecracks and patches from several other farces in which New York vernacular has been employed for dramatic effect. Almost all the comedies of this season carry some echo of George Kelly's The Showoff. This one even shamelessly copies John Bartel's famed laugh. Joe Laurie, former vaudeville star, quite appropriately graduates into the leading role. The play appeals especially...
Recently a well known American author published a book concerning the process of justice in New York City. To lapse again into the vernacular he took Blindfolded Justice for something of a ride. The feature film at the Metropolitan this week is adapted from this very good book and made into a very much worse movie. In fact the above mentioned author must have experienced much the same loss of faith as the chicken which hatched a duck egg, when he first beheld his motion picture child. In short the picture is just another of those periodic and unpleasantly intimate...