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High in favor likewise are Fred Allen and Jimmy Savo, who have been provided in lieu of a comedy book. Allen's comic methods are pungent] Savo's dancing never misses a good stroke. They wander continually through the performance as the authors of the libretto, escaped from a lunatic asylum. There are the customary, inevitable skits of current Broadway attractions...
Octavine Long tried for the second time to exhibit her Reclining Nude, but the management of the conservative Waldorf debarred the picture, on the grounds that it might offend guests of the hotel who might wander to the roof garden setting of the show...
...what about the final five of a package of twenty, after the package has become crushed in the pocket, and the tail-enders thrown crosswise and generally tangled up? Or how about those that wander out of the package into the pocket...
RUSTLERS' VALLEY?Clarence E. Mulford?Doubleday ($2.00). Clarence Mulford is worth 20 Zane Greys, if only because he holds no brief for his great open spaces. He does not let his watering eye wander for chapters over the mesas, nor does he shake his horny finger reproachfully at the jazzing East. He hasn't time. His heroes are always too much on the move?solving mysteries, pulling guns, cracking jokes, riding pintos, drinking redeye, winning heroines, proving that the accusations against them are (in large part) false? anyway exaggerated. This book follows the accepted pattern. He gives you what...
...over and above the lore of his calling, a general acquaintance with the history of mankind, with the scientific view of the universe, with the best in world-literature and the other arts, and with the major concepts of philosophy; and we submit that no youth left free to wander through the college catalogue is likely to compass the fundamentals in this broad field of knowledge. Indeed, it may as well be said that the thing can not be done; for what results can we expect from a system of special courses and free election which abandons to immature...