Word: beautyâ
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Significance. The polish, the precision, the elaborate grace and subterranean acridity of Mr. Cabell's characteristic style have never been displayed to better advantage than in this, which is among the very bitterest of his books. He is not afraid of coarseness, but he is not afraid of beauty???and in The High Place he has molded beauty and coarseness and sadness and horror and wit and defiant laughter together in a strangely complete and unique achievement...
Music Box Revue. Another gorgeous spectacle?another moving curtain, this time a mermaid-one?much color?much beauty???only occasional lapses in taste?Grace Moore's voice ?Florence O'Denishawn's dancing? Frank Tinney?Josephy Santley? John Steel?Florence Moore. And this time, praises be, a revue with at least three uproariously funny interjections: R. C. Benchley's inimitable reading of the treasurer's report; a skit entitled If Men Played Cards as Women Do; an operatic rendering of Yess, We Have No Bananas! In many ways easily the best of all the revues...