Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about when he is knocked unconscious. It seems this particular pugilist wanted to be an architect and marry a maid above his station. His distrustful manager suggested that if he persisted in these inflated notions he would land at police headquarters. These disheveled inventions are woven into a play, mad enough to fool most of the spectators for much, of the evening. When the hero took the stage and exterminated virtually the entire troupe with revolver shots it was patent that something was askew. Tangles and untangles, it was fairly good...
From Boston, from Baltimore, from Rochester, from all the outlying districts of Manhattan came pilgrims last week for the opening of the Wagner Matinee Cycle at the Metropolitan Opera House. Ever since the Mad Ludwig allowed him Bayreuth, it has been the way of musical folk to take the midsummer pilgrimage to bask in the glory of Richard Wagner. In the U. S. his glory spread more slowly. At first it was the matter of importing a great new musical idea, a new school of conductors, singers. There came the day then of Lehmann, of Ternina, Fremstad, Schumann-Heink...
...Shine. Joe Cook is a comic, worshiped not by his public but by his disciples. He is a comedian funny through the sheer disconnection of his dialogues. He tells unending stories with the eagerest conviction, no two sentences of which have the faintest rational relation. He wears no mad makeups, talks no dialects. He sings well enough, dances deftly, juggles Indian clubs, balances at the top of a 12 foot pole swinging hoops on his heels, walks a huge ball up a perilous incline and down the other side, whirls with his feet a heavy pole weighted with...
Next morning there arrived inopportunely at Vienna famed U. S. negroid danseuse Josephine Baker-in figure like a long string bean, in color a prepossessing tawny chocolate, and in motion either sinuously undulant or mechanistically "jazz mad." Would she, whom smart Paris has huzzahed at the Folies-Bergere and toasted at her own night club, Chez Josephine Baker, be rudely welcomed among Viennese as is the hardy pilgrim who ventures among disapproving skunks? Prudently a strong police escort was accorded Miss Baker between the station and her hotel. Thereafter, although a few students skulked in the vicinity for some hours...
...people who like to argue subtle questions, an event last week at Lima, Ohio, furnished ideal debate. The ques-tions suggested were: Can a madman be heroic? Can a hero be mad? The event was this: George Remus, one-time Illinois lawyer, then millionaire Ohio bootlegger, then convict, then insensate wife-murderer, who was judged guiltless but mentally insecure in Cincinnati (TIME, Jan. 2), and who was confined in the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane at Lima -this man heard muffled cries in the asylum. A huge, lunatic Negro had over- powered one of the guards and .was deliberately...