Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time that he began life as a student of painting, lavished a for tune on a few exuberant weeks in Venice, and is a discerning judge of cocktails, tobacco, fabrics? Or in those of Hugh Walpole, when they discover that he is a genial and witty Englishman, with a pair of glasses on his nose and an admiration for Amer ica in general and for Jurgen and Seventh Heaven in particular? Reading a novel is, after all, like being told a story, except that you cannot see the teller. It is like a telephone conversation, only more...
...POOR MAN?Stella Benson? Macmillan ($2.00). The unheroic " hero " is a " poor, sickly thing," a contemptible, insignificant, friendless Englishman. The book is a catalog of his inadequacies, as opposed to the very different inadequacies of those who despise him, in bohemian California, on the Yangtze in China. The author's pen is a sharp, acidulous weapon...
...answer to innumerable proddings the publishers of Holst's "Planets" at last sent the parts thus enabling Mr. Monteux to fulfill a promise of long standing. Holst is an Englishman of Scandinavian extraction, and might have been expected, from the qualifications to be a loyal follower of Grieg. But he has thoroughly submerged any Scandinavian traits, not, however, to become English. His work is reminiscent of no other composer. In melody, in harmony, but most strikingly in orchestration, he is absolutely original. It is, moreover, an interesting, a powerful originality. Never except in the Glee Club's great song...
...become a habit with Americans in the last few years to cram into lecture halls to hear some distinguished Englishman,--newly-arrived on his first visit to the United States,--talk on his opinion of them. After which, the lecturer gathers together his gate receipts, goes home, and publishes a profitable volume on "Impressions in America" which satisfies him and which is eagerly bought on the western side of the water. Nothing could be fairer...
...elusively through "The Truth about Blayds", which Boston is seeing for the first time at the Copley this week. There is none of the near-burlesque of the "Dover Road", and no such whimsy as in "Mr. Pim", but here is a hint of something growing in the young Englishman's art: he is holding his own fascinating traits, and picking up power and sincerity to add to them. In this play he touches upon a problem, and while he refuses to come to grips with it, he approaches near enough to size it up pretty thoroughly. The problem...