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...literature. Our Manhattan producer has thrown the light of genius on "the Boston aristocracy." That caste has so little breathing since and elbow room in a Celtic Jewish-Italian-Greek town that the sympathetic sociologists may deem it worthier of encouragement than of dispraise; but youth is intolerant. Our satirist seeks to show, or "show up," the life of a youthful patrician from birth to Class...
...selecting the name of a numerous Massachusetts tribe, the satirist's taste is questionable. The Harvard Lampoon, more dedicate and urbane inverted "Holler Codfish Cabot at Harvard" is the unarm life." The slightest dip into philology would have shown the author the what is a "Cabot" etymologically? It is "the vulgar name" of a fish with many other aliases, "cabasuda," "cabasuc," "cabotin," "Joel", in short, a "bullhead." In heraldry it is a fish with a big head. "Little Codfish Bull cad at Harvard!". At this barbarous fish-chowder the Sacred Codfish, pale at the gills, bites off its own scales...
...close, Mr. Monteux played Ravel's "Choreographic Poem" the Waltz, with an understanding and sympathy which wholly redeemed the less interesting parts of the concert. Ravel is beyond description--certainly the master-satirist of music. Humor, subtlety, musical virtuosity; all are his. Listening, the Boston audience ponders solemnly, frowning on those who see the point...
...giving a play by Benevente, the Dramatic Club produces the work of one of the chief Spanish dramatists. He is preeminently a satirist, but his humor shows itself most in the double meanings that abound in "The Governor's Wife." Being an actor himself, he was able to ignore the common precepts of craftsmanship and to make his style one of the most complex and highly personal in literature...
...Satirist Still Idealist at Heart