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Somehow the Jester got hold of a copy of the CRIMSON'S Lampoon Review and reprinted it. The CRIMSON does not know how this was done, but feels that the review's accuracy makes it worth running again anyway...
...worst of the lot is a drawing by James Montgomery Flagg showing a jester jabbing his pen into the rear end of an evil-looking person labeled "Hypocrisy." The caption is, "1951--Lampy--Still doing his stuff." If Mr. Flagg is seriously implying that the Lampoon is a puncturer of the balloons of insincerity and inconsistency which clutter up the atmosphere of society, then he should examine more closely the recent copies of the magazine...
Although "The Yeomen of the Guard" has many excellent songs and scenes, it is Jack Point, the unhappy Jester, who distinguishes the work. W. Barry Pennington plays the role with as complete a mastery as anyone could hope for in such a production. He projects Gilbert's conceits admirably, and at the same time is able to make the fool a genuinely pitiable character. There is more of the grumpily clever W. S. Gilbert in Point's lines than in those of any other part in the operas...
...inhabitants will enjoy "Opera Soufile" a great deal more than those who don't. Many of the scenes depicted contain caricatures of actual performers. Jan Peerce, in consume as the Duke of Mantua, struts through the seven pages devoted to "Rigoletto," while Leonard Warren, in the role of the jester, glowers at two spear carriers in the malediction scene. The caricatures are bold and simple, and they very seldom miss their mark...
...Knjizevne No-vine (Literary Gazette), scored direct hits on the most unpopular people of Yugoslavia-the Communist bureaucrats and their wives who lived off what fat there was in the hungry land. Copic's articles were reinforced by the cartoons of a popular artist who calls himself "Dzumhur" (Jester...