Word: drummings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Halfway between Artist Lynd Ward (God's Man, Madman's Drum} and Cartoonist Milt Gross (He Done Her Wrong} comes Satirist William Cropper. Without Ward's arty symbolism or Gross's simple artfulness, he tells a straight story, then horses it a little...
...last year's team, as well as the veterans E.K. Jenkins '31, and W.F. Luton '32 will make up the nucleus of this year's first string. The University squad which will be divided into four teams also includes six of last year's Freshmen: C.N. Bliss '33, John Drum Jr. '33, R.S. Nicholas '33, St. John Smith Jr. '33, and Walton Wetten '33. The Freshman squad of 15 men, which will be split up into five teams, has a scheduled game with Yale at New Haven on March 14 and will play other games with local teams...
Woodcutter Lynd Ward's first "novel" in woodcuts, Gods' Man (TIME, Nov. 25, 1929), was first of its kind in the U. S.,? became a minor collectors' item. Mad Man's Drum's story is simple in outline, but Artist-Author Ward this time makes some of his sequences unnecessarily obscure. As before, he is decorative, eerily suggestive, reminiscent of morbid cinema...
...disaster dogs him. His wife runs away with an-other man, his two daughters come to grief because he does not know how to help them, does not notice till too late that they need his help. Left finally alone, he goes mad, sits fingering the old African drum his father brought back from the bloody jungle...
...regard to Mr. W. R. Hearst's newly acquired drum major the latest thing in New Mexico is "I bet you Coolidges to Brisbanes," etc., or thus and so. In grand grands...