Word: skins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Warner plays a kindly part in a comedy of disillusionment. He turns from soap manufacture to painting, puts his soul on canvas, and sells it?as the skin you love to touch...
...where they were boy and girl lovers together?in sight of the cottage where they dreamed the future together. The house is large, not pretentious; there are servants, but the footman does not laugh up his sleeve while " Mr. Ford takes the jackets off his potatoes boiled-with-the-skin-on." Over the fireplace is inscribed: " Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice...
...Warner plays a kindly part in a comedy of disillusionment. He turns from soap manufacture to painting, puts his soul on canvas, and sells it?as the skin you love to touch...
...jazz music, real dancing and a quality of speed and verve which was unique and refreshing. Strut Miss Lizzie and Liza, which followed, were progressively poorer. The naivete was gone, the speed became a deliberate mechanical effect instead of a natural exuberance, and the delightful " high yella " and " brown skin " flavor, degenerated into a cheap imitation of white musical comedy plus extravagant caricature of the native jazz tradition. How Come, in the opinion of most metropolitan reviewers, is the poorest of the lot. Whatever redeeming quality it has is furnished by Eddie Hunter, the librettist and comedian, who was hailed...
...museum was the embryo of the circus " side show." " Curiosities natural and unnatural ": the Feegee Mermaid, the diorama of Napoleon's funeral, the negro who had cured his skin of " color" and who predicted the fading out of slavery, cannibals and grotesque sea monsters, beauty shows and the Life of P. T. Barnum, Written by Himself were only some of the sensations propagated by the " master of monstrosities...