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...owes them, form a corporation to save him from his creditors on condition that he marry an heiress they pick out for him. Once more Menjou, with slight movements of his hands, lips, and eyebrows, convinces you that laughter and humanity can exist under a starched, striped shirt. Wittiest shot of this good picture is the happy ending-Menjou arranging books in the window of a Fifth Avenue bookstore so that their titles explain to his sweetheart that he has gotten a divorce from the heiress...
...Gold Mining Co. has been the dullest and dreariest. Back in 1919, it cost $2.85 a share; in 1923, one could buy it for 25?. But for the most part, it hovered around $1. And there, for a jest, three potent stockmarketeers bought it in large blocks as the wittiest of all possible Christmas gifts to their wives...
...Woollcott is one of the best known and wittiest of New York's dramatic critics. His experiences with the stage and journalism have been wide and interesting, and as he has an exceptional first hand knowledge of the production and writing of all varieties of dramatic work...
During the war Mr. Woolcott published the news bulletin of the American Expeditionary Force, in Paris. He has written several books about the theater, among them, "Enchanted Aisles," "Shouts and Murmers," and "Mrs. Fiske," and is one of New York's best known and wittiest critics...
...entire class has gathered together at a meal in the same room, the one in which they are during their first two years at college, the results of the senior voting on, their fellows were read by Joseph Bryan, who was himself voted the most entertaining and the wittiest by large majorities...