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...Howard struggles home on a street car with the most essential fixture for his bathroom; with Brother Eugene he tries to make a papier-mâché cow "give"; on a Columbus Circle soap box he makes a Communist speech: "Rewolt! Our cup of beeterness ees feeled to ze breem! Rewolt!'' There is a nudist sketch; a scene in Cinemactress "Margreta Garbitch's" Hollywood training quarters; a song called "Love, Nuts and Noodles" in which Nina Mae McKinney does what appears to be a nautch dance...
...like Bishop Freeman. He is an occasional golfer (with Dr. Ze Barney Thorne Phillips, chaplain to the Senate), an expert crossword puzzler, a pipe and cigaret smoker. He weighs 190 lb., is still husky but much older looking than when he became Bishop of Washington...
Business Done. The House of Deputies reelected Dr. Ze Barney Thome Phillips, chaplain of the U. S. Senate and rector of Washington's Epiphany Church, to be its president; Dr. Carroll Melvin Davis of New York, domestic secretary of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, to be secretary...
...cabin 205. There, written in a steward's slanting scrawl, was the name: M. Clarence Darrow. Count de Polignac generally speaks English with only a trace of a French accent. Nevertheless the Graphic reported his final gangplank words as: "Those who ordered me, Count de Polignac, to ze jail have trespass on my honaire. . . . "But here in America, when I am humiliated, I can do nozzing." "Maybe zey zink zis is ze joke and zey get zemselves, what you call it-pooblicity. To me, zo, it is ze serious mattair. Zey have exploited my name, zose dry agents...
...most nasal resonnance. The diction throughout is based on the questionable philosophy that France is full of Frenchmen. Little Arlette, the dyer-kiss do-de-o-do (but I loof heem, ah mon Dieu how I loof heem). Jacques the melancholy boulevardier (you ave hask me eef I spik ze English?), and Mimi the cockeyed marmoset, are really but two-dimensional characters. They never really exist. With that amen of thankfulness, let us ask ourselves how, even in the greatness of the economic waste in the book industry, this mosaie of maudlin superfluity was ever published...