Word: epical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Architecture of the Epic...
Brian Oswald Dorm-Byrne, the storyteller, has now done* what it has long seemed he might do-put aside his sentimental inclination and surrendered himself completely to the language of the Bible, to the epic fever of the century that produced the last great religion. The fighting man in him has chosen the most iron man of that time for a hero, and while the fabulous First Century colors, passions and mysteries of the Near East are heaped in the pages like exotic scenery beside a straight white road, the story is a lean dark runner on the road, Saul...
Bostonians wriggled, grimaced and guffawed last week at "a joyous epic; fantasy for the orchestra composed by P. S. Converse, inspired by the familiar legend 'The Ten Millionth Ford Is Now Serving Its Owner.'" When the Boston Symphony ceased its jolting cacophony, no insults were hurled at Composer Converse, bowing on the platform. His sense of humor, unlike that of Composer George Antheil (see above), is not inscrutable...
Historical material was furnished by Hermann Hagedorn, biographer of Theodore Roosevelt. Much of his research is incorporated into the film ably directed by Victor Fleming. Primarily, however, the object was a tingling war melodrama, not a historical epic...
...have been many better numbers than this, for the jokes seem to lack that subtlety which is usually the Lampoon's raison d'etre. The funniest of these to me is that on top of page 135. "The Abbot of Oldham" is mildly amusing as is also the worm epic, the last sentence of which approaches the heights of Mr. Larrabee's work in 1921. No so much can be said for the "Inkings" in this number, with the possible exception of the "Ten Guineas". The nod in the direction of George Ade is all well enough, but unnecessary...