Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beaux Arts Ball program cover. His winning canvas is entitled Sunday Afternoon. It shows a U. S. family of the Iron Stag era grouped round a little ornamental fountain on a croquet lawn. The models this time have all their clothes on. The painting has considerably more humor than most Prix de Rome projects. But there remain the same studio attitudes of the figures, the same theatrical treatment of background. Critics found it still a little Savage. To those who saw the work of other candidates from other schools there could be no suggestion that the jury (Artists Barry Faulkner...
...readers of New Author Flannagan's book will pull up only at its end papers, with a sigh. Though dealing with the fairly thoroughly canvassed tragic situation, or lack of situation, of half-breed Negroes in the South, the book tells its story with a ruthless, rare good humor. It is a highly un-saccharine good humor which will remind readers more of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn than of the Peterkin school of writers on Negro themes. And Author Flannagan, without the usual studied accoutrements of a simple style, can write simple conversational English to a turn...
...catch lazy, inefficient bureaucratic Comrades in its long jaws and crunch them with merciless humor is the job of The Crocodile, Soviet Russia's comic-monthly-with-a-purpose. Crunch went The Crocodile's jaws recently upon luckless Comrade Isakhanov, Red Director of a soviet shoe factory at Tiflis, 1.200 miles south of Moscow...
...himself. It places him rightly as a kindly, scholarly person more of the 19th Century than of the 20th. But Chicagoans who expected it to be an obvious revelation of a life story or of superficial traits were disappointed. It was abstract, idealistic music, touched only here & there with humor sounded by piccolos and the xylophone. Large, amiable Mrs. Stock once gave a homely word-portrait of the Stock who likes to build furniture, tinker with electricity. After a particularly strenuous piece of conducting, when he was effusively mopping his brow, she leaned over to the next box, said...
...home, which is seldom. For love he has turned to an artist in the studio (Madge Evans), but is unable to marry her because his wife refuses to divorce him until he can earn enough to ''give her a decent alimony." He is fired for losing his sense of humor, moves to a cheap hotel, accidentally kills his wife. With his friend from the studio he attempts a getaway by motor while the nation's regular radio programs are interrupted at frequent intervals with demands for his capture. As he is marched off to serve his sentence for manslaughter...