Word: beerbohm
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...predictable, The usual calculated whimsy, the trivia, the place names, are all back making their bids for laughs, (But I did meet a girl who was thrilled that the Lampoon Playboy parody had put Chagrin Falls, Ohio, on the map.) As for the worst offense -- well, the incomparable Max Beerbohm once wrote of W. S. Gilbert that his "one notion of humorous prose was to use as many long words and as many formal constructions as possible -- a most tedious trick, much practiced by other Mid-Victorian writers." Three Lampoon pieces are guilty on that count...
...outdo the rest in crudity of design and of colour. It is rather like visiting the parrot-house in the Zoological Gardens, save that there one can at least stop one's ears with one's fingers, whereas here one merely wants to shut one's eyes." Sir Max Beerbohm, The Observer...
...David Cecil. The story of Max Beerbohm's sunny, uneventful life makes relaxing reading for a more frantic...
This undramatic story is warmed by the affection that Biographer Cecil clearly felt for Max and that Max so easily kindled in all who knew him. The book is much too long, fleshed out by generous excerpts from the Beerbohm works, each analyzed and explained to the point of tedium. But in between, there are touching glimpses of the top-hatted dandy whose means were as slender as his gifts: the impeccable Max was compelled to iron his own suits...
Graceful Gestures. "Oh, please treat it as a loan!" cried the young Max, in an agony of embarrassment when the firemen who had quenched a chimney fire in the Beerbohm parlor coldly declined a tip. An admirer of Oscar Wilde, Max unhesitatingly and uncritically stood by him in his time of disgrace. A kindred tolerance let him forgive Constance Collier, the actress who jilted him almost as soon as they became engaged. "Of course I don't blame her the very least," he wrote to a friend...