Word: bohemianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exception to the rule of painstaking British portraitists is venerable, bearded, cantankerous Augustus Edwin John, 57. He had always ignored the Academy until it elected him in 1921. Britain's most popular eccentric, who dresses like a Paris Bohemian of 1890 and named one of his daughters Poppet, last week exhibited two bold, admirable portraits...
Laurel and Hardy, flushed by the success of "The Devil's Brother," their first venture into light opera, have taken another plunge into musical fantasy and come up with "The Bohemian Girl," unquestionably their funniest production to date...
...Author. Ben Hecht, "Pagliacci of the Fire Escape," is that rare type, a bohemian who made good on Broadway. Manhattan-born (1894), he staked his first claims to fame in Chicago, whither, after spurning college and joining a road-show as an acrobat, he went intending to be a violinist, turned newshawk instead. A vehement, ironic and imaginative talker, a writer of the generously promissory sort, he was taken seriously enough by the longhaired to be printed in Margaret Anderson's late Little Review. A collaborator of parts, he wrote several plays with Maxwell Bodenheim, then quarrelled with...
UNDERGRADUATE LIFE for the students in the Deutsche Studentenshoin in Prague, the Bohemian capitan is little different from the life led by American undergraduates--at least that is what the photos shown here seem to prove. Above is a student's room, one of the many now famous for the drawings on the walls. A typical study room is shown at right, above. And the photo at the right is of a typical reading room where are kept...
...Bohemian Club Prize