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...bagel looks like a month-old doughnut and tastes delicious. A yuk (plural, yox) is a belly laugh. There are plenty of both in the new Yiddish-English revue at the Shubert. A group of Harvard men pass out bagels and cream cheese during intermission and the show takes care of the rest...
...close to three hours. Most of the acts are vaudeville, but the subtleties of Yiddish vaudeville are as good as anything the Palace ever had. And there are enough English jokes to keep those who cannot understand Yiddish from becoming completely frustrated. Once in a while a moldy yuk shoves its way in among the crisp ones, but never enough to be annoying...
Barefoot Boy with Cheek was a remarkably sustained example of the kind of homely slapstick that gets a big laugh in the freshman dormitories. It sold 33.000 copies (and 220,000 reprints), and made Max, at 24, a very big yuk in the laugh trade. The Feather Merchants (1944) and The Zebra Derby (1946) did even better. On the dust jacket of Max's fourth book, Sleep Till Noon, no less an authority than Playwright George Abbott has no hesitation about calling Max a humorist "who seems distantly related to Dean Swift and Rabelais...
...Lampoon business board will be on hand to peddle programs and hawk peanuts before the game. WE THEY Fiend, Wis72820 Farwell D. Smith ocC Farb, the Desperate, clum $imons, .05 Quislin, 7 Stupor, tilt Solmssen, ugh Photographer (sic) Cabot to Burrhaid, ng Lowell to Peron, old pro God. Bellylaff, yuk Cheers, 2 Cockatoo, awk Tiger...