unearths some literary gems.
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It is a triumph of the gulp school of affected simplicity. [Brackett]
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Miss Bentley has put into her pot all the ingredients of a moving story, but there is no fire under the pot.
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Notes on some of the attachments:
1. I included the "pastimes" item for the moostache-shaped lampshade and the shmoolike ornament who seems to be "playing along."
2. I looked into this business of ping-pong at the Little Carnegie theater. I get the impression it was in a separate room, but I like the suggestion here that it was directly competing with the movie being shown.
3. Shaw and Lee can be found online; but, unlike Fuzzy Knight, they did not (imho) live up to the promise. Best moment I found was when, in a routine where they trade off delivering oneliners, they both start delivering the same joke at once, in unison (then look at each other in surprise, and simultaneously stop talking).
4. The "West" items are Rebecca West (aka Lynx) being filtered through an Alexander Woollcott piece that quotes her extensively--hence the peculiar framing.
5. You'll see that I pasted in E. B. White's remark about his funny illustration hopefully being on "this" page--because, technically, it wasn't (only because the end of the article, where the remark occurred, ran over onto the next page).
