Word: comics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University authorities would never take such action against the Lampoon as Boston University officials used to suppress the Beanpot, B.U.'s comic magazine," declared Professor G.B. Chase '96 last night...
...MacLean takes his smile for an airing on the Alps. As in his earlier picture, The Hottentot, Mr. MacLean is again a timid young man harried into rash deeds for the sake of a maiden fair. Constructed along formulistic lines, his gallivanting around the dizzy cliffs yet has its comic urge...
...World, he dares to denounce in the current Nation his journal's advocacy of play censorship. Art may take it or leave it; and if he wants amusement without art, that, too, is up to him. Mr. Cain has brought the argument to the World's own doorstep. Its comic strips lay no claim to artistic intent, and they very frequently lanse into coarseness. If burlesque shows amuse "sailors, soldiers, and taxicab drivers, then these citizens of the United States are entitled to their amusement. Why should they be bothered with art?" If, at the same time, publishing the immoral...
When the curtain went up on "The Swan" last Monday night, the audience at the Hollis watched unfold a play of many moods. Satire bordering on burlesque, comedy on the comic, sentimentality on melodrama--the humors theatrical were well represented. Conceived in a graceful ease that could be only Continental, cloaked in dignity by the translation of Melville P. Baker '22, and conveyed to the audience by a company at once able and sincere, Ferenc Molnar's play established itself as entertainment in the most hospitable sense of the word...
...personality out of the tutor, where others would have been content to play him only in type. Mr. Hobbes, as Father Hyacinth, put all his lines and business across, and can be criticised only for doing it too thoroughly. The innumerable domestics supplied most of the burlesque and comic elements which should have been omitted...