Word: comics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Comic. It is entirely fitting that a playwright dramatize himself occasionally, especially if he does so with a grin. Lajos Luria, author of The Comic, prefaced this work as follows: "Lajos Luria is the pseudonym of one of Europe's most successful present day dramatists, used by him only when writing comedies and plays of a much lighter vein than his more serious dramatic and poetic works...
...dramatist should write his comedies with more wit and originality than Mr. Luria, if he hopes to perpetrate a graceful hoax. The Comic fumbles with a situation in which an actor convinces a playwright that a certain scene needs rewriting, by maneuvering the playwright into a nervous predicament with the leading lady. The Manhattan audience was more befuddled than convinced-despite the able performance of Actress Patricia Collinge...
...cartoonist scoffed at the idea that an art school training would be of any great value to a would-be cartoonist. "There isn't much art in a comic strip, and I doubt whether going to an art school could be of much use anyhow. I never went to one, and most other cartoonists I know of never did. Experience and hard work, of course, are necessary preliminaries for a career at the drawing-board...
This first lecture of the series of three on "The Appreciation of Shakespeare" will be on "King Henry IV." The lecture will mainly deal with Sir John Falstaff, Shakespeare's great comic character...
This lecture will deal principally with the character of Sir John Fal-staff, Shakespeare's great comic figure...