Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Serious Scholar will recognize these accessories as relating to an earlier epoch. He will recall the ancient musical show when the comedian's ear, properly punched, burst into full cauliflower. He will, in short, remember the days when musical comedy humor depended essentially on the comedian's ability to fall on his face...
...this same Scholar will unbend so far as to slide 50 cents under the box office grating the next time a burlesque troupe settles in the local auditorium he will suddenly feel younger. The rising curtain will reveal: first a pair of feet that are not mates, next a pair of checkered pantaloons merging into a green vest, finally a long and astonishingly rubric nasal organ. The comedian is suddenly struck violently in the stomach. He gyrates neatly, and falls flat upon his face. The memories involved may provoke a smile. More probably they will give the aged Scholar...
...well known French scholar recently remarked that " given a political crisis, the Camelots are well enough organized to overthrow the Republican regime and imprison the President in the Elysee...
...hear a new opera, Phaedre?book by D'Annunzio and music by the modernist composer, Pizetti. As a piece of dramatturgy the opera was voted dull. But the music was praised loudly as a lovely bit of classical and archaic beauty. The composer is above all things a scholar, who, working his way into new harmonic textures, gives himself, at the same time, to an ardent study of the music of antiquity. He is a great authority on the Greek modes, and uses them with vast skill and charm...
...operation of a malign influence. It is the " international money power." Since the fact is not divulged by any of the texts, it is to be presumed that Mr. Hirshfield though of it himself. It is a great imaginative conception, and worthy of the scholar who conceived...