“THE YOUNGER SET

…This first number, however, was not without its pathetic side. One picture published in it was a doctored photograph of an old man. A letter was received from a young woman who declared it her father’s picture (her father was deceased), and that she couldn’t understand how we could have obtained it. Several others wrote in, in answer to some of the seeming advertisements. As a matter of fact, I do not believe that one-half of the readers of Life understood what the number was all about. But among the small proportion of literary elite, the intellegentsia and advertisers, this number is now a classic. But I don’t think that Bob Sherwood ever recovered from it. Since then, he has become so seriously involved in the movies that his great and growing reputation as an international humorist is sadly threatened.

How many others there are among the younger set who deserve an account of their talents! They are coming up all the time—an increasing body of joyous souls. I recall among them the names of  …Foster Ware, …”

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Our American Humorists, by Thoman Masson Lansing, 1922, page 390