Word: beerbohm
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These are some of the cartoons drawn by that dilettante, Max Beerbohm...
...world-flung empire so securely. Serious minded people have read an affront to the Royal Family and the empire into the cartoons of Max. It is undeniable that the artist stamps himself a plain boor for choosing such subjects, but, on the other hand, it is equally undeniable that Beerbohm intended no slight. He says in a letter to the Secretary of the Galleries : ". . . if the public is likely to read any shadow of seriousness into them, and accordingly regard them as unkind or disloyal, I think it will be well to avoid this misunderstanding by removing them...
...Beerbohm is nearly 51 years of age. Educated at Charterhouse and Merton College, Oxford, he has since dabbled with the fine arts and literature. A great lover of Italy, he spends much of his time at his villa (Villino Chiaro) at Rapallo...
...Lenin is not in good health at all and needs something to amuse him, something like Beerbohm Tree's Hamlet, which Sir W. S. Gilbert said was funny, without being vulgar. Trotsky needs distraction and Litvinoff has a sense of humor and there is no earthly reason why Senator Borah should not have a really good time...
There followed a series of pretenders to the throne--men like the lesser Roman emperors who fill up the gaps in the annals. At last Beerbohm Tree, in the name of variety, appeared as a red-headed, red-bewhiskered Hamlet, but failed. With no ghost and no Ophelia it is conceivable that a sandy lunatic might have been a great hit. Next the gentle Forbes-Robertson carried off the laurels with a kind of paradoxical, superplussed magnetism. Then, after Southern's admirable elocution and Walter Hampden's colloquialism -- which doesn't at all describe his acting--we come to Barrymore...