unearths some literary gems.
From the New Yorker, July-Dec. 1926:
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the Jameses Branch Cabell and Stephens
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Many of us...are addicted to allegorical meanings, and fidget whenever we cannot find them.
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The Capitol has a picture called for no apparanet reason The Duchess of Buffalo.
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Go very slightly out of your way to attend. [mild praise for a movie]
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The first act is so dull that I thought even the audience noticed it. [Brackett]
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There isn't a speech in it which doesn't suffer from fallen arches. [ditto]
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You can't see the forest for the family tree.
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Uncle Augue Witherspoon [a person made up by Brackett]
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The Play's the Thing is genuine caviar, but spread in a parsimonious canape on slightly stale toast. [Brackett]
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[Bonus: A show called No Foolin' is reviewed; the review is titled "Very Little Fooling."]
[Bonus: I looked up the cast of a play called Daisy Mayme]
Daisy Mayme Plunkett
Mr. Filoon
Mrs. Olly Kipax ["the silly sister," per Brackett]
