A GOOD LAUGH
Clarence Budington Kelland is best known as the creator of "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," but he is also the author of a score of other novels. If half of them are as genuinely amusing as his latest, "Speak Easily," he should rank in the forefront of humorists. This new book is a farce with a pinch of satire, but, although the farce follows a not unusual track, Mr. Kelland imports something delightfully novel into the business. A young university lecturer, perhaps a little too good to be true, is left a huge fortune. He is ordered by his president to get out and see the world, casually finding himself among a group of second-rate actors and actresses, "backing" a new revue partly written by himself, mixed up in a jewel robbery which forces him into a blaze of publicity, and finally achieving a double success in the theatre and In private life. It is all hilariously ludicrous and splendid entertainment
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 100, 30 April 1938, Page 27
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164A GOOD LAUGH Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 100, 30 April 1938, Page 27
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