Word: artful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...limited and that they merely unfold the mysteries of the animal and vegetable kingdoms viz. the clam and the onion. The latest Pathos Weekly shows the uncomfortable adventures of a Harvard pacifist. In fact the movie number lacks nothing to make it a humorous encyclopedia of the new art. A glance through its pages will give anyone an amusing pass into the forbidden precincts of film land...
...particular, to that unwillingness that has become an inability to see straight, to look at things from a healthy point of view; it points to a decadent standard among those whose opinion influences not alone the standard of morals for the community, but the standard of politics, of art, of sport, and of all life; it points to a negligence which becomes criminal when it allows young girls and young men who are to become leaders when of age to start their careers by publicly proclaiming that they approve of vice and immorality being shoved forward into the limelight...
...narrative sketches in this number, Mr. Davidson's "Mr. Brodie Lapses From Virtue" is the most successful, and Mr. Ness' "On Hearing the 'Apres-Midi' of Debussy" is the most interesting. There are grave objections against any attempt to render the effects of one art in the terms of another, but the beauty of phrase and image in this carefully wrought prose poem is nearly sufficient to tease one out of thought and critical severity. In "The Ship" Mr. Low prepares an elaborate and impressive setting for an action which is not presented or even adequately suggested. There...
...splendid Piero di Cosmo, recently described in these columns and now on loan at the Fogg Museum, that institution has also received as a loan from the Messrs. Duveen in New York a well-preserved tempera painting on panel of the "Virgin and Child," an Italian work of art of the 15th century by the Sienese painter, Matteo di Giovann di Bartolo, called Matteo di Siena (1435 1495). This important picture was formerly in the collection of Sir Philip Burne-Jones...
This is the more surprising in Mr. Booth, since he had the advantage, at outset, of a good, workmanlike novel to draw upon. It is not a sin against art to write a romance or construct a play upon the impossible physical resemblance of two men. Only you must get away with it. A certain William Shakespeare, as Professor Baker would say, "got away with it," to a remarkable degree in "Twelfth Night," and so did Anthony Hope in that classic melodrama, "The Prisoner of Zenda." And so did Mrs. Thurston, the original author of "The Masquerader." But Mr. Booth...