The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

" His passionate dislike for the New Deal seemed to have spurred his entry into national politics. S. Kelland married Betty Caroline Smith in 1907 and at the urging of his father-in-law left the newspaper business and moved to Vermont for a short period to run a clothespin mill with his brother.

"Opera Hat" later was turned into the short-lived television series Mr. One of Kelland's best-known characters was featured in the Scattergood Baines series of six films from 1941–43 starring Guy Kibbee. He was publiClarence Budington Kellandd in many magazines including The Saturday Evening Post and The American Magazine.