Word: satiristic
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After the dinner, to which members of the club and graduates have been invited, the members will adjourn to the Lowell House tower room, where several of the dialogues of Lucian, the Greek satirist, will be read by the students...
...Band Wagon has the services of Satirist George S. Kaufman (Once In A Lifetime) to show how ridiculous musical extravaganzas can be when done wrong, and Lyricist Howard Dietz and Composer Arthur Schwartz (The Little Show, Three's A Crowd) to demonstrate how good a revue can be when done right. Mr. Kaufman has first innings, sets his colleagues a stiff pace by presenting as a prelude a mad kaleidoscope of musicomedy cliches. There is an insanely pointless blackout, a senseless, sugary melody sung by ingenue and juvenile, a ludicrous torch song. A gesticulating chorus stamps out shouting...
Died. Ralph Barton, 39, caricaturist and satirist (Science in Rhyme Without Reason, God's Country); by his own hand (revolver); in Manhattan. Four times married - to Marie Jennings, Anna Minerly, Actress Carlotta Monterey (now married to Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill) and French Composer Germaine Tailleferre-he was four times divorced. Last week he left a statement headed "Obit" which said: "I have run from wife to wife, from house to house, from country to country in a ridiculous effort to escape from myself. ... In particular, my remorse is bitter over my failure to appreciate my beautiful lost...
Critic Margaret Bruening (Evening Post), who was not caricatured, found the pastels "handsome portraits which are actually flattering to the sitters." With Machiavellian cunning, Satirist . Bacon who is far from ugly caricatured herself more cruelly (see cut) than she did any of the critics...
Halfway between Artist Lynd Ward (God's Man, Madman's Drum} and Cartoonist Milt Gross (He Done Her Wrong} comes Satirist William Cropper. Without Ward's arty symbolism or Gross's simple artfulness, he tells a straight story, then horses it a little...