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Harry Delmar's Revels. The process of glorifying one Harry Delmar, vaudevillian, was duly inaugurated last week. Dully, too, in spots. Other spots included a jovial pony ballet; a vulgar song that grossly libels the Revolutionary hero Paul Revere; various deft dancers; Frank Fay, one of the few high-voiced comedians who can induce hysterics...
...good lyrics: "A Tree in A Park" sounded awfully good to us but then Helen Ford sang it and as far as we're concerned she could sing anything and we'd ask for more. No criticism would be complete without several bravas for Lulu McConnell: she may be vulgar but she's very funny and she has a laugh that does things to your vertebrae and almost shatters the Wilbur chandeliers. Betty Sarbuck, as Alice, Penfant terrible, is excellent. And there is an extremely personable young man named Stark Patterson who is well, we're just about...
...High Snobbishness. However, a closer examination of the actual facts does not fail to prove that his idea is in reality nothing but a mirage. (Empty dream.) Unfortunately, our brothers go to Harvard. They use a flat "a", are perfectly acquainted with the letter "r", are common, lowdown, plain vulgar gentlemen. So are their friends, when observed intimately. So are their friends, when observed intimately. And their friends...
...form. Since he wrote, "The Sun Also Rises," the author has trained down fine: with a keen psychological insight he gives only the significant aspects of the brief dramatic incidents. There are no airs and graces about him, no strainings for effect. One will not find in him the vulgar American sin of falseness nor yet the favorite modern one of incoherence. In his prose we feel the wiry strength of steel springs: quickly, it moves with the panther's lithe, coordinate tread, so sure...
...plays which pander to the non-representative vulgarian audiences of New York, upon whom the producers depend almost entirely; have become in recent years more and more vulgar; the themes more sensational, and the language more blasphemous...