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Docile, Shrewd, Smart. Ten years in the U. S. have put Lily Pons and the English language on a footing of jovial acquaintance rather than intimacy. Her soprano chatter is the sort which newspaper interviewers, transcribing every zis and zat with loving care, particularly admire. Of England's late King George V she said: "Ze Keeng-he ees tres gentil-zo zhentle, zo keeng." Of a shoe which was too small for even her No. 2 foot: ;'Eet ees no. I cannot enter." Pert and naive-looking with her big brown eyes, her childish face framed...
...notify that university that he expected to receive an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. President of Tulane's Board of Administrators was and is Es mond Phelps, part owner of the anti-Long New Orleans Times-Picayune. The Board voted to bestow no degree on Governor Long. "Is zat so?" the Kingfish is reputed to have howled when the henchman brought back the news. "I'll make Tulane look like a goddamned cross-roads country school...
...Shannons of Broadway. Not so many seasons ago James Gleason and his wife, Lucille Webster, were unknown except to stock and vaudeville audiences. Then one night Mr. Gleason appeared in a piece of his own co-authorship called Is Zat So? From that day to this his name has been among the notables. Meanwhile, Mrs. Gleason was swaggering, noisy and caustic, through Merton of the Movies and The Butter and Egg Man. Now the family (with the exception of a sophomore son at University of California) have pooled potentialities and are appearing in a play written, directed and acted chiefly...
...Zat So? is a slapsticky adaptation of James Gleason & Richard Taber's Odyssey of a dim-witted pugilist and his pessimistic trainer. A grinning, guffawing, snickering audience testified that the film version is likely to prove as successful as the stage original...
...ZAT SO?- Good old favorite with prizefighting jargon...