Word: satiricism
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Up to last spring Soviet censors barred romantic themes from new Soviet novels, plays and poems, denounced romance as frivolous and out of keeping with the Five-Year Plan. During the summer such restrictions were relaxed but many a Red editor still shies at printing romance. Recently the famed Crocodile...
A hand-picked section of the New York art world last week got a tantalizing glimpse of an important exhibition. The exclusive Lotos Club turned over its main room to an exhibition of 35 original bronzes of the late John Rogers, arranged and mounted by Art Dealer Felix Wildenstein of...
The theme of the work is not new, it is a return to the old attack on the false ideals of modern life, a tract against the prostitution of all that is healthy and wholesome in civilization to selfishness and commercialization. Unlike the gall of Lewis, or the satiric sterility...
The story itself, about a country boy (Eric Linden) who comes to New York to set the town on fire and goes home with scorched fingers, might have been much better handled. Ward Morehouse, who wrote it, is a theatrical reporter who knows more about how theatrical people talk than...
Merrily We Go to Hell (Paramount). This is about a colyumist (Fredric March) who differs from the other two because he has a home and is not much concerned with murdered racketeers. He marries the daughter (Sylvia Sidney) of a packing millionaire, after meeting her behind a row of bottles...